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Show NOTES ON THE GRAMMAR OF THE NEZ PERCES LANGUAGE. BY REV. GEORGE AIK6ME. The language spoken by the Nez Percys tribe of Indians is expressed by twenty- five elementary sounds, viz: Eight vowel, four diphthongal, and thirteen consonantaL These are written by twenty- five characters and combinations, as follows: Alphabet of the Nez Perch language. A, a, A, a, E, e, E, e, U. 0, o, U, n, U, ti, W, w, Y, y, Ai, ai, Au, au, Ei, ei, Oi, oi, H, h, K, k, fMt, 1m', N, n, P, P, S, s, T, t, Sh, sh, H, h, guttural. K} k, gutturaL as in 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 41 44 44 44 44 44 ( 4 44 VOWELS all, man, prey, met, marine, - note full, tub, wine, . you, • hama, watu, tsekin, keh, im, tota, hu, ktda, wah, yoh, DIPHTHONGS. aisle, mound, wanting. voice, aishin, hautnin, peleipelei, liloinin, CONSONANTS. home, king, low, mate, not, pear, sun, time, shine, hama, kaua, lawit, matu, nih, pana, silu, tats, ipsusb, named 41 44 44 44 a 44 44 44 44 44 4 » 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 4( 44 awe. ah. aye, eh. ee. owe, 00. tih. we. ye. eye, ou. ei. oi. be. ke. le. me. ne. pe. see. te. she. The language contains eight parts of speech, viz: Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. |