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Show 66b combinations of consonants like kv, mk, ts, tch, tchk, occu The accent scarcely ever rests on the terminal syllable < The e n d i n g s o f the plnral form of nonns are- im, - am, a occur here. Cases are formed, by suffixing post- position katch& ka, in the house. Many adjectives are composed w kopin-, m e a n i n g plurality or abundance, ( much, many.) by means of t h e suffix - anka, - inka, - inkum, & c. In < terminals a r e most frequently observed; - tch being the n a s u b s t i t u t e for the definite article the: - tch: kitch, house ; in Eauvuya, j tokuvtch, sky ; in Kauvuya, &- aetch, good ; in Kauvuya, - at: taniyat, sun ; kotchat, wood - e t : ttimuet, rock ; nio- umet, sea - i t : shuvuit, wind. - ut: honut, bear; in Kauvuya, hi In most verbs, we observe the ending - kin, - kain, whi probably also to the - kal in Kauvuya verbs, - al alternat GAITCHIN. This dialect of the Kauvuya branch of Shoshouee Ian of the Pacific Ocean at San Juan Capistrano and at Sa Loew's statements, at some distance from the coast at We possess two old vocabularies taken at San Juan Capi themselves Akdtchma, said to mean " pyramid hill," or dialect the appellation of Netela, evidently ne* tale, no t We have also a few words collected from the San Li settled around San Luis Rey de Francia Mission, whic Gaitchin words, and were said to belong to the Kechi derived from gitch, kitch house, or settlement, and couseq O. Loew obtained his words and sentences from at Capistrano Mission, but bailing from San Luis Rey. Vowels and diphthongs are the same as in Kauvuya ar and/ do not occur at all, r is not found very often and if only in bi- it, younger sister. Words generally show cc l, t, tch, being the most common of all. The accent generally rests on the penultima, though i ble of the word- stem, as in mag£ t, large, great, vue", two, In substantives and adjectives, the plural ends in - un - om, - am,) and the verb also assumes a plural form, - otu Adjectives do not drop their plural endings when join Nouns are inflected by postpositions in the same man of the Kauvuya branch: kauitch, mountain; kauvi- nga the mountain; mout. sea; mom- nga, in the sea; pushun- n Further case- inflections appear in the endings - am and Gitcham gumuk, on the other side of house ; na- a- atch an larger than the dog; gitch meaning house, and anal dog. Terminals for derivative nouns are as follows: - itch ( t forest; vunfi- itch, river, & c, and in some adjectives des deaf, & c. - al: hungal, wind; e* khal, earth. - at: tomat, lightning. - at: shov6- ut, winter ; vokha- ut, frog. - mol, - mnl: amayomol, young ; kavaVamal, cup ; olti- ui - ant, - ont: vuymkhant, heavy ; tch6rokhont, round. - ev, - ov: emengev, ripe ; pol6- ov, costly. A gradation of the adjective is effected by adding tl magaU, great; mag at huikhnunga, greater; vam huikh addition to this the ^ nidation is timrio innrn apparo& t hj The tmmeralsexbibit elements of UJ^ quaternary count tbi' other tlgnres rw » tili£ 00 the quinary method of nuiue The interrogative particle is mt, me. |