_father sky_
Pennayu make,nambà yaa ambayujui miyà mo;
_name men confess and love all_
Buhu mombojua tamma gkomendà hi nogodoño demuejueg gkajim;
_and sky earth_
Pennayùla bogodoño gkajim, gui hi ambayujup maba yaa ke,amete
_favour_
decuinyi mo puegiñ;
_sky earth_
Yaa m blihula mujua ambayup mo dedahijua, amet ê nò guìlugui hi pagkajim;
_this day day_
Tamadà yaa ibo tejueg quiluguiqui pe,mijich ê mòu ibo yanno puegiñ;
_and man evil_
Guihi tamma yaa gambuegjula ke,pujui ambinyijua pennayala dedaudugùjua,
giulugui pagkajim;
_and although and_
Guihi yaa tagamuegla hui ambinyijua hi doomo puhuegjua, he doomo
pogonunyim;
_and earth bless evil_
Tagamuegjua guihi usimahel ke,ammet è decuinyimo, guihi yaa hui ambinyi
yaa gambuegpea pagkaudugum.
Lastly, in 33° north latitude; the language of[40] San Luis El _Rey_,
which is Yuma; is succeeded by that of San Luis _Obispo_, which is
Capistrano.
[Footnote 40: For an exception to this statement see the Remarks at the
end of the Volume. (1859.)]
I conclude, then, that the Yuma language belongs to the southern parts
of _New_ and the northern part of _Old_ California.
Of recent notices of any of the languages of Old California,
_eo nomine_, I know none. In the Mithridates the information is
pre-eminently scanty.
According to the only work which I have examined at first-hand, the
_Nachrichten von der Americanischen Halbinsel Californien_ (Mannheim,
1772; in the Mithridates, 1773), the anonymous author of which was a
Jesuit missionary in the middle parts of the Peninsula, the languages
of Old California were--