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Sing. That, 61!, aid, tan. Plu. Those, wogaold, wold, negaald. ‘One’ is ”(100111; ‘none’ is man/en ; and ‘such‘ is M; ta/ec‘zk.

The Interrogatives who? which? and what? are represented by tan? tegm? and kegood? where? is tan let? An interrogative par- ticle in, corresponding to Latin 726‘, being also untranslatable into English, often indicates the rising inflection.

Pronouns are combined with verbs, or take a verbal ending, and are declined throughout like verbs as when 7127;, I, becomes nemzwe, it is I; and verbs take endings which convey the pronoun idea by inflec- tion, as when nemedegé (I have vision) becomes nemék, I see him; of of which nemét and néméajul are used for the second and third per- son if the object be animate and singular : if, however the object be inanimate singular the first person is nemedoo, I see it, with nemedoon and nemeddk for second and third, while the first dual is nemedoakw, and the first plural nemedoadéek, we see many.

A further change to express a double object is made in the ter- mination of some transitive verbs, and wiska'gwddegiz, ‘I cook’ becomes not only wiskégwo‘dao, ‘ I cook it, ’ but also wiskégwddumool, ‘I cook for you.’

There is a nice distinction made in the first person dual and plural of pronouns and verbs, which has been designated as first person in- clusive and exclusive, for the one includes the person addressed, and the other excludes him, thus kenoo ‘we,’ means thou and I; while nénen we, means he and I. By saying 17001567200, I address one as our father and imply that we are broz’kers, but if I say noolcénm. I make it pur- posely evident that you are not my brother.

Personal

Personal Pronouns in the possessive case invariably combine with the noun attached, the stem of the pronoun being prefixed to the com- pound, and the inflection added as a suflix, as when sakumow, a chief becomes n’sakumam, my chief, kesakumam thy chief and noosakum- amool, his chief. Negum, the third personal pronoun singular, re- presents alike the masculine, feminine and neuter genders.

To answer the question wenotaal? whose canoe is this? I would