my

;

exclusively employed as

suffixes ;

and as suffixes to the de

scriptive substantives, adjectives, and verbs.

Relative pronouns Demonstrative pronouns, both animate and inanimate, are found in many forms

are very limited.

The Algonquin language is in a peculiar sense a language of Originally there appear to have been but three terms, answering to the three persons, I, thou, or you, and he or she. distinBy these terms, the speaker or actor is

pronouns.

clearly

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

guished ; but they convey no idea of sex, the word for the should suspect it, being strictly epi cene. In a class of languages strongly transitive, the purposes third person in which we

of precision required another class of pronouns, which should be suffixed to the end of verbs, to render the object of the ac tion as certain as the

actor

is.

The language being without

supplied by the tensal syllables, and which have extended the original monysyllage, gab, gub, bles into trisyllables. This is the first step on the polysyllabical auxiliary verbs, their place is

ladder.

To make the suffixed or objective pronouns, they ap

pear to have availed themselves of a principle which they had already applied to nouns namely, the principle of indicating,

by the letters g or n added to the plural terms, the two great divisions of creation, on which the whole grammatical structure is

built

namely, the genderic classes of living or inert matter. n, could be applied to the

As these alphabetical signs, g and