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_Praeterperfect Tense_
_Atai_, I have eaten, We have eaten
_Atei_, Thou haft eaten, You have eaten
_Ati?_, He has eaten, They have eaten
_Future Tense_
_Ataio_, I shall or will eat, We will eat
_Ateio_, Thou wilt eat, You will eat
_At?io_, He will eat, They will eat
_Infinitive Mood_
_At_, To eat
_Praeterimperfect Tense of the Subjunctive Mood_
_Atain_, I would eat, We would eat
_Atein_, Thou wouldn't eat, Ye would eat
_At?in_, He would eat, They would eat
_Praeterpluperfect_
_Atais_, I would have eaten, We would have eaten
_Ateis_, Thou would'st have eaten, You would have eaten
_At?is_, He or she should have eaten, They would have eaten
_Participle of the Present Tense_
_Atain_, Eating
From thence are deriv'd the Words, _Ataus_, Kitchen; _Ata?s_, Food; _Ati?_, Cook; _Atians_, Eater, or the Person that Eateth
Their Alphabet consists of Twenty Characters, _viz_ Seven Vowels, _a_, _e_, _i_, _o_, _u_, _?_, _?_, (the Sixth of which is properly the _Aita_ of the Greeks, and the Seventh is equivalent to the Dipthongue, _ou_) and Thirteen Consonants, _b_, _d_, _f_, _g_, _h_, _k_, _l_, _m_, _n_, _p_, _r_, _s_, _t_ These same Consonants serve the_, 4; _h_, 5; _k_, 6; _l_, 7; _m_, 8; _n_, 9; _p_, 10; _pb_, 11; _pd_, 12; &c _dp_, is equivalent to twice Ten, or Twenty; _fp_, to thrice Ten, or Thirty; _fb_, 31; &c _pp_, ten times Ten, or 100; _r_, 1000; _pr_, 10000; _ppr_, 100000; _s_, a Million; _ps_, 10 Millions; _pps_, 100 Millions; _ppps_, 1000 Millions; and so on, always adding one _p_ more
It must likewise be observed, that their Nouns and Verbs are deriv'd from one another, like the French, _Chat_, a Boar Cat; _Chate_, a She Cat; _Chatons_, Kittlings; _Chatonner_, to Kitten
Their Declensions are also very easy, of which this is an Example:
Nom _Brol_, } Gen _Brul_, } A Weather
Dat _Brel_, }
Nom _Brolu_, } Gen _Brula_, } An Ewe or Sheep