But apart from these verbal resemblances, there are certain features of orthography that establish the relationship between these dialects quite as clearly. To mention no others, the use of _m_ and _n_—as if they were preceded by a sort of half-vowel sound—before certain other consonants, at the beginning of words, is very peculiar. _M_ is constantly used before b, p, t, and w, as in the words _mbolo_, _mpolu_, _mtesa_, and _mwera_. So _n_ is constantly used before k, t, y, and gw, as in the words _nkala_, _ntondo_, _nyassa_, and _ngwe_. The combination of _ny_ occurs in the names of most of the great lakes, as _Nyassa_, _Nyanza_, and _Tanganyika_. A still more striking feature of relationship between these dialects may be found in the combinations by which proper names are formed. The names of a large proportion of the tribes encountered by Stanley and Cameron on their journeys across the continent commence with the letter _u_, as _Uganda_, _Unyoro_, and _Ujiji_, &c. Now, by prefixing _ma_, and dropping the initial _u_, we have _Maganda_, a person or citizen of _Uganda_; _Manyoro_, a person or citizen of _Unyoro_. So by prefixing _wa_ instead of _ma_, we get _Waganda_, they, or the people of _Uganda_. Now, in the Mpongwe dialect, _ma_ is simply a contraction of _oma_, person, and _wa_ or _wao_ is the personal pronoun for _they_, showing how these proper names are formed. Again, many of the names of these tribes terminate in _ana_. _Ana_, in the Mpongwe dialect, is an abbreviation of _awana_, children or descendants. If the names of Bechuana and Wangana could be analyzed, they would be found to mean the children or descendants of _Bechu_ or _Wanga_, this being the way of giving names to any particular family that separates itself from the parent stock.