_sky_ ambayujub ambeink ---- terereka-datemba.
_earth_ amet amate-guang ---- datemba.
_fire_ ---- usi ussi ----
_man_ tämma tama tamma ti.
_father_ käkka iham keneda ----
_son_ ---- uisaham ---- tshanu.
The short compositions of Hervas (given in the Mithridates) show the
same.
THE WAIKUR.--This is the language of what I have called the Mannheim
account, namely the anonymous work of a Jesuit missionary of the Waikur
country published at Mannheim.
It gives us the following specimens--Waikur and German:
Kepè-dáre tekerekádatembi dai;
_unser Vater gebogene Erd du bist;_
ei-rì akatuikè-pu-me;
_dich o das erkennen alle werden;_
tshakárrake-pu-me ti tschie;
_loben alle werden Leut und;_
ecùn gracia-ri acúme carè tekerekadatembi tschie;
_dein gratia o dass haben werden wir gebogene Erd und;_
eiri jebarrakemi ti pu jaupe datemba
_dir o dass gehorsamen werden Menschen alle heer Erd,_
pae ei jebarrakere aëna kéa;
_wie dir gehorsamen droben seynd;_
kepecun bu. kepe ken jatúpe untairi;
_unser Speis uns gebe dieser tag;_
catè kuitscharakè tei tschie kepecun atacamara
_uns verzehe du und unser Böses;_
paè kuitscharrakère catè tschie cavape atukiàra keperujake;
_wie verzehen wir auch die Böses uns thun;_
catè tikakambà têi tschie;
_uns helfe du und;_
cuvumerà catè uè atukiàra;
_wollen werden Nicht wir etwas Böses;_
kepe kakunja pe atacara tschie. Amen.
_uns beschutze von Bösen und. Amen._
The compound _tekereka-datembi = bent land = sky = heaven_.
To this very periphrastic Paternoster we may add the following
fragments of the Waikur conjugation:--
Bè } {_ego ludo._
Ei } {_tu ludis._
Tutâu } amukirere = {_ille ludit._
Catè } {_nos ludimus._
Petè } {_vos luditis._
Tucáva} {_illi ludunt._
Bè } {_ego lusi_.
Ei } {_tu lusisti_.
Tutâu } amukiririkeri = {_ille lusit_.
Catè } {_nos lusimus_.
Petè } {_vos lusistis_.
Tucáva} {_illi luserunt_.
Amukirimè = _ludere_.
Amukiri tei = _lude_.
Amukiri tu = _ludite_.
Bè-ri } {_I wish I had not played._
Ei-ri } {_Thou &c._
Tutâu-ri } amukiririkarikara = {_He &c._
Catè-ri } {_We &c._
Petè-ri } {_Ye &c._
Tucáva-ri} {_They &c._
Of the _Pericu_ spoken at the south extremity of the peninsula, I know
no specimens.
We now turn to that part of the Yuma area which lies along the course
of the Gila, and more especially the parts along the Cocomaricopa
villages, of which one portion of the occupants speak a language
belonging to the Yuma, the other one belonging to the Pima class.
This latter leads us to the languages of the northern provinces of
Mexico--