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I
Thou
He, she, it
We
You
They
I Thou
He, she, it
We
You
They
I Thou
He, she, it
We
You
They
Then,
. . . . .. . ទទ
Öko
This peculiarity is shown in all the Bojigngiji Group, except Kôl; thus:
ENGLISH.
BEA.
BOJIGYAR.
BALAWA. "In the Present Tense" (ke).
do
tuk
ngo
ong
môt
ngak uk môt nuk net
otot
atôtotôkot
et
do mâmi-ke ..
da mâmi-ka...
otot
at
Stotökot
et
da mâmire. dona mâminga
do
ngo
8, 0
moicho
ngòi cho
eda
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
da
nga
B
meda
ngeda
eda
moda ngoda
oda
do
ngongot
ôngọt
"In the Past Tense" (ka and re).
tong
ngong ong
môt
ngo
ong
mongot
ngongot
ongot
...
⠀⠀⠀⠀
***
"In the Present Participle" (nga),
dona
tong ngong
ngona oda
In Bea.
ongs, onar-, ara
eb
ad
...
07
ông
ar, ara
eb
ad
In Balawa.
1.
Expression of Plurality by Radical Prefixes.
The examination of the "pronouns" shows that the Andamanese can express things taken together (plural) as well as things taken by themselves (singular). This in their language generally is expressed by changing the forms of the radical prefixes, in Bea and Balawa habitually and in Kôl and Juwai occasionally. Thus:
SING.
PLU.
SING.
PLU.
SING.
oiot
arat
ebet
ad
I am sleeping
I was sleeping
I slept
I (me) sleeping
Ôngot
arat
ebet
ad
ngonget net
ong
môt
ngowel
nong
ig-, ik-, iaka
iji
akan
[AUGUST, 1907.
idaka
idi
akan
JUWAI.
*་རྞྞཨཿཋཱ་ཚིཎྜཐུ་ ཚུན ཟླ ཝཱ ॰ བྷཱཝ
PLU.
itigakat
ijit, ijet
akan
idit
akat
idit
akan
