The combinations of cb, sh, and z, are common, as are also those of bw^ dw, gw, and hw.

Al expresses the sound of a as in

fate ;

ah the sound of a as in father ; au, as in fall, auction, and

law ;

au

in

in

media ,

in

converting

ee is

ia, as the sound of i alw , ouw and eow appear different moods ib, the

the sound of e as in feel ;

the sound of o in voice , <?/,

verbs indicative

into

;

sound of i suddenly stopped off; ooh, the sound of o suddenly stopped off; uk, the sound of , roughly aspirated, and also ugh ;

bw as in bwoin; gw as in mw as in in mohwa; kw as in wewukwun

ck, as in English, also, sh

gwiuk

hw as

;

and zh ;

;

wa-mwa; ny as in nyauj tshw as

in

tshwe

tshwees-ke-wa, a

snipe. 2. Substantives. In a general survey of the language there is perhaps no feature which obtrudes itself so constantly to view, as the principle which separates all words, of whatever denomi

nation, into animates and inanimates, as they are applied to This objects in the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdom.

most words, and carries its dis It is the gender of the lan throughout the syntax. but a gender of so unbounded a scope, as to merge it

principle has been grafted upon tinctions

guage ;

distinctions of a masculine and feminine, and to give a two-fold character to the parts of speech.