. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. suffixed {fa, fe, A, fo,fu) ; the guttural k with the same; the m withthem: then the .? with them (and modified bydiacritics into ~, French j, Eng. sh) ; then y, t,r, n, all with those vowels attached; lastly, twomore, na, ne. The t is sometimes ts, dz, transcription by Europeans is is, beside, a kind of metaphony, by whichfo becomes fau and fafu; rid. riyau; kvo, kavau,kafau, etc. This is similar to the Latin lavo,lav
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. suffixed {fa, fe, A, fo,fu) ; the guttural k with the same; the m withthem: then the .? with them (and modified bydiacritics into ~, French j, Eng. sh) ; then y, t,r, n, all with those vowels attached; lastly, twomore, na, ne. The t is sometimes ts, dz, transcription by Europeans is is, beside, a kind of metaphony, by whichfo becomes fau and fafu; rid. riyau; kvo, kavau,kafau, etc. This is similar to the Latin lavo,lavatum and lautum, latum; faveo, fautum, fo-titm. fa*tus, etc. Dialectic variations dependchiefly on modifications of sounds; in Yeddo,for instance, r predominates; elsewhere f ispronounced v; fu like u, etc. In the grammar,there is no gender; the male sex is indicated byro, the female by me. Substantives do not differon the whole from adjectives. The latter areoften replaced by qualitative verbs or by theparticle of the genitive, and are euphonicallyvaried, according to their position: thus, forinstance; akae fana, red flower; akashc fanava, -_ -z z D0 3 r. Z
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