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 JAPANESE. 387 Like Corean, Manchu, and Mongol, all Japanese nouns referring to human relationships have a plural, though of irregular form. And like them it has several forms of the verb employed according to the rank of the person addressed ; Japanese apparently making this a matter of as great importance as the Coreans. But in attaching the negative (na, nai) to the verb, it resembles Manchu, and not Corean, — as kUcoo, to hear; kikcmoo, hears not : koo, to eat ; koowanoOy eats not The verb is, like that of the other Turanian languages, without gender or number, but is inflected according to time and moda The interrogative form of the verb is like the Corean-^, for it affixes the syllable — ka to the verb, as: cmata ncmi wo naaarvmaoka, what are you doing? Japanese syntax also resembles the other three, as : — Get ready my attendants — Wcdobkshi w> tomo no shtdkoo wo shiro. My attendants get-ready. Vaccination was first introduced into Japan about thirty years ago by the Dutch — Ireboao wa san jiw Tien izen Oranda jin Nipponye Vaccination three ten year before Holland man Japan mocM/wcMHmtxskta. introduced. He does not understand his business well — Ano kata wa kcmgio no michi wo waJdmaete ora/remaaenoo. He business well understand not ^ He is an American not a Japanese— An>o kata wa Amerika no Mode Nippon nohto dego He American man Japan man zariiruiaenfioo. t* is not He denies that he did it=:he says that he did not do it— Ano kaia wa iUiBhinn£8efi(U)o to oe^^^. . He did. not saya ^ K