THE MIXYUNG DIALECT.
��mullanye cubbinmai, 'do not feed liim '; yiina gully cullum kaggale means 'let us go to catch fish '; lit., ' let us go, let us catch fish '; both verbs are in the imperativ?. Kia mullanye bumalia, 'ask him to fight'; this is the more common form ; but walo kia mullanye webara kundia, or walo mullanye kia webara kunjeba, 'you ask him to light a fire '; here the endings of the verbs will agree in all the tenses ; as, (imper.) kia kunjeba; (^)rt6^<) kianne kunjebunne; {fut.) kian kunjeban.
Examples of the Formation op the Tenses of Verbs. The numbers here are the Tenses as on page 16 of this Appendix.
��Bunia, ' to fight, beat, kill.'
1, Buma, bumale, bumga, bumgale ; 2. Bumala, bumalela, bum- gala, bumgalela ; 3. Buman, bumgan ; 4. Bumanne, bumalinne, bumganne, buminne ; 5. Buraaloro, bumgaloro, bumaloroby ; 6. Bumen, bumallen, bumgallen; 7. Buminna; 8. Bumian, bumalian; 9. Bumalia; 10. Bumai; 11. Bumenden. Comj^ound forms are : —
Bumaigerry, ' wish to fight '; bumejum {imper. neg.), 'fight not'; karaban bumale {imper. reciprocal), 'fight one another'; bumille-ma, 'cause to fight,' which also, as above, may change ma into -mala, -malela, -man; -munne, -men; -ma-ia, &c.
Kinda, 'make.' 1. Kinda, kindabale; 2. Kindalela, kindabulela; 3. Kindan ; 4. Kindinne; 5. Kindaloro, kindabuloro; 6. Kinden, kindabulen, »tc. Kinda does not take the forms in -ga ; nor buma those in ba.
TABLE OF RELATIONSHIPS m MINYUa.
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��A blackf calls ^ father s brother. ,, is called in return . . .
A blackf calls a mother s sister. ,, is called in return . .
��Native words.
biag*. . . moiim .
waijug . moi'un .
��Equivalents.
pater, patruns. illius Jili-us, -a ;
liujus nepos.X onater, matertera. illius fli-us, -a ;
hnjus nepos. % avunculus.
��ejus nepos. amita. ejus nepos.
��A blacky calls a mother's brother kaog . . ,
,, is called in return .... bui'rijug A blackf calls ?^ father's sister . . narrim .
„ is called in return .... ny6gon .
- Biag also means 'father,' and waijug ' mother.'
The child of biag or of waijug is 'brother (sister)' to moium ; and a child of kag or narrun is cousin to burrijug and nyogon. t Male or female. J For brevity, I make wpos^ncphev.i, niece. — Ed.
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