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

vowel sounds of all nouns and all verbs (for they

five terminal

must, to be made plural or conjugated, be provided with terminal vowels, where they do not, when used disjunctively, exist), there is naturally a set of five vital or animate and five nonTen classes of nouns and ten or inanimate plurals.

vital

classes of verbs are thus formed.

But

as

the long vowels in

au and aan require three more varieties of numerical inflection in each of these vowels, the respective number of plural terms is

sixteen eight, and the total

plural,

and

sixteen

modes of making the This is pro

sixteen conjugations for the verb.

ductive of a variety of terminal sounds, and appears at the first

but the principle glance to be confused,

is

simple and easily

so easily, that a child need never mistake it. The terminal g or n of each word denotes in all positions, the

remembered

;

classes of nature, great genderic the of grammar. points

two

which

are

the cardinal

the regular plurals are respec Agreeably to data furnished, and ain, een, in, on, un, with the addi tively ag, eg, ig, og, ug, tional aug, eeg, and oag, in the vital, and aun, een, and oan, for the long vowels, in the non-vital class.