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 306 and relatively close connexions of Rot., for example in Sawimese. Thus in the Sawunese Story of Pepeka, Bijdr. 1904, p, 283, 1. 10 from the bottom, we find: "In the cave" = In c. the = la roa ne. The Modern Rottinese article a also follows the principal word.

220. The fact that we therefore have to credit Rottinese with four articles, k, n, s, and a, makes no difficulty, for the number of articles in Bugis is even larger, as I showed in a previous monograph.

221. We therefore assume that in a former period of its evolution the final in Rottinese had become exclusively vocalic, and that in the modern period it has again to a large extent resumed the consonantal form owing to the welding on of articles containing no vowel. The assumption of such a divergency in development involves no impossibility. As was remarked above, the Bimanese is a language with purely vocalic finals, yet it employs certain enclitic pronouns even in forms devoid of vowels. "Child" in Bim. is ána < Original IN anak, "my child" is aná-ku or aná-k. And such forms even occur at the end of a sentence; thus in Mpama Saṅaji Ali in Jonker's "Bimaneesche Texten", p. 55, 1. 15 from the bottom, a sentence ends with the words: "At the house of our prince" = At p. o. = labo rumá-t. In Bim. such pronouns are still mobile, they have not been welded together with the principal word to form a new WB as in Rot.

222. The crucial test of the correctness of these conclusions consists in the following: If the finals k, s, and n, are articles that have been annexed and have lost their original force, they must not occur in verbal words, vocatives, or the like. And that is really the case. The word taek, "young man", is tae in the vocative. "To rain" is uda, "(the) rain" udan. Accordingly the Original IN ur1an has undergone the following development in Rot.: