There are as many modes of indicating the are as there vowel plural sounds,' yet there is no dis forming it

tinction between a limited and an unlimited substantive plural ; al

though there is, in the pronoun, an inclusive and an exclusive plu ral. Whether we say man or men, two men or twenty men, the But singular inin-e, and the plural ininewug, remain the same. if

we say we, us or our men (who are present), or we, us, or

our Indians (in general), the plural we, and us, and our for are rendered the same form admit of a to in by they change dicate whether the objective person or persons be included or This principle forms a single and anomalous instance excluded.

of the use of particular plurals ; and it carries its distinctions, by means of the pronouns, separable and inseparable, into the verbs and substantives, creating the necessity of double conju gations and double declensions, in the plural forms of the first person.

form,

is

Thus the term for Our Father, which, in the inclusive Kosinaun, is, in the exclusive, Nosinaun. But the plurals mak

The general plural is variously made.

take upon themselves an additional power or are distinguished into animates and which substantives sign, by Without this additional power, all nouns plural inanimates. would end in the vowels a, e, /, o, u but to mark the gender,

ing inflections

;

the letter g is added to animates, and the letter n to inanimates,