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Show Southern Payute. ChemehuevL Western Payute. Uintah- Utah. body teeth hand bone bow snow fire rock, stone, fly whol yes! no! to eat n6- uav t& vuamb mo- om a- 6v atch ne- ovav kun tamp mabitch hangi e- e gatch tokai n6- uan tauvamb mo- urn 6- oan ateh novab ku- UD, kun tu- ump, tump raobitch hanga* fi- u katch tokara nu- uin tava vu- ela oho 6de nevave kosh ttibe-' e m- tiivi hage" hfl- u karti- u tugate ningovh taua ma a^ ats nevavai k'- un timb mtipa hang fi- vay kats teke For want of space, I have to refrain from extending this table over all the other Sho-shonee languages and dialects. To do this would certainly be very instructive and also furnish materials from which to derive phonetic laws for the whole Shoshone © family. 80UTHERN PAYUTB8. The words and sentences given by O. Loew were gathered from Indians living at the little mining town of Yvanpah, west of Colorado River, Nevada, compared in Cottonwood Island and at Stone's Ferry, both settlements being located on Colorado River. Some more words were added on the last- mentioned place. Vowels: u, u, o, a, e, i. Nasalized vowels: a, e, 0, u. Diphthongs: au; i, ei, ui. Consonants: k, t, p; g, d, ( occurs only in pa- ubd, blood,) b; kh; s, sh; h, y, ( the German j,) v ; ng, n, m; r, r. 1 and f do not occur. In words having no derivative ending, the accent mostly rests on the pen ultima; and, in words provided with such a termination, it oommonly rests on the syllable pre ceding it. In this idiom, as in Kizh, we notice several modes of forming the plural of nouns, and singularly enough even cardinal numbers show a singular and a plural form. This curious circumstance might be explained through the law of analogy; but probably the plural of the numeral has here a distributive meaning, like quini, deni, in Latin. Plurals in - atum: avan, many, much, ava" - atum. in - im, - am: pa-£ tsiv, louse, pa- 4tsivim; hun, rat, hunam. in - vun, - um: tukibun, friend; tukibuvun, pay- ay, three, pa- ayum. in - uts: nar& vungg, sheep, naraVunguts. in - ara: hiviuump, oup, hivinumpara; sovib, cottonwood- tree, sovfbara. All these various endings can be easily reduced to three original forms: - atum, ( or - itum); - lite ( or - its); - ara. The first of them changes into - itum,- otum, etc., the penultima being always short and indistinctly uttered; or it collapses, by dropping the - at, - it, into - am, - im, - om, - un, etc. The second terminal, - tUs, probably corresponds to the collective - tch in Kizh and Gaitchin; the third, - ara, evidently is the adjective avan, many, much, having altered its pronunciation into ava, aua, ara. When adjectives and numerals are joined to substantives expressing inanimate objects, they are liable to drop their plural endings. No separate form exists for ordinal numbers. The most frequent derivative termination in nouns i s : - ab, probably equivalent to - ob and- ub; pa- uyab, mud; kanab, large willow; movitob, narines; angasi - urub, leather strap. Other endings are: - ib, - i v : andkuib, a kind of squash; pigiv, bread, - av : haiko- 6tsav, bottle, and in many parts of the human frame. - at: m6buat, fool, - an : puruan, skin; vuytsan, calf of leg. - ash, - ats, - atch: shuyush, one; tauats, man; na- ubitch, wet. - ump: arnmp, tongue; po- onump, lead- pencil. In nouns, a case- inflection is observed as in the Kauvuya dialects: p*- a, water ; pa- upa, in the water; kaiv, mountain; kaiv- umbay, on the mountain. The subject- pronoun prefixed to the verb is frequently omitted when there is no doubt of the meaning of the sentence. Negative sentences begin with the negative particle, and positive ( not interrogative) sentences generally with the predicate, and when the subject is not expressed, with the object: pa- ai avan hiviga, I have drunk much water. Tenses are formed after the following model: nuni tokay, I eat; nuni tokayan, I have eaten; katch an tokayan, / have not eaten; nuni tekavan, / shall eat; katohun teka- vau- va, / shall not eat. |