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,

making the plurals of the first class terminate in ag, eeg, ig, og, Ten modes ug, and of the second class in an, een, in, on, un. of forming the plural are thus provided, five of which are ani mate, and five inanimate plurals.

A strong and clear distinc

tion is thus drawn between the two classes of words, so unerring

.

indeed, in its application, that it is only necessary to inquire how the plural is formed to determine whether it belong to one or the other class.

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

Where a noun terminates with the vowel in the singular, the addition of the g, or n, shows at once both the plural and the In other instances, as in peena, a partridge ; seebe, a gender. requires a consonant to precede conformity with a rule previously stated.

river ;

it

and seebe-wun.

the plural vowel, in

Thus peenal-wug Where the noun singular terminates in the

broad instead of the long sound of

;

in ogimau, a chief;