It had few P being changed to B; few F often changed to V; few L changing to Y; few S changed to Z; few D changed to T.—It had no nasal sounds as in Italian, AN becoming _Ana_ &c. Many dipthongs AO, OEI, IA, AI, UA, AU, EI &c. as in Italian, each vowel sounded. This made the language soft, pleasing and musical as in Italian and Polynesian. Dangleria says the accent was always on the last syllable, as in French. On the grammar of it, nothing has been written; what Vater has said is quite loose and inaccurate. We have not even the _Lord’s Prayer_ in it, so as to serve as a model. Our only guides are a few translated phrases of Roman and Dangleria; but they enable us to perceive the main features of it. One of the chief was the great use of articles, as in Italian; but with a peculiar one GUA, put commonly before, but sometimes after the nouns. It was a demonstrative article, meaning _such_, or _this_, _that_, _these_, _those_; but never changing and common as our _The_: while this indicative _The_ was declinable or changing as in the Italic languages, and extremely various, although always prefixed, expressed by I, HI, HIN, NI, N’, ZI, LI &c. A third kind of article was O, which when added, appears to have been comparative, and to mean _Akin_, _Like_, _Similar_, or our English AS. The relative article _Of_ was A prefixed. Examples of Articles. _Gua-yava_ This pear. _Gua-ma_ This great, or lord. _Gua-tiaos_ Those brothers. _Ma-za-gua_ Great plain such. _Bala-gua_ Sea such, the ocean. _I-Guana_ The guana or lizard. _Ni-taino_ The good or noble. _Mi-taino_ My noble lord. _Li-ani_ The wife. Eyeri dialect. _Hin-Guaili_ The such-sons, the children. _Ziba o_ Stone like, stony. _A-na_ Of bloom, a flower. _A-boria_ Of labor, a vassal. _A-maca_ Of wood, a bed. _A-ma_ Of great, water. _A-reiti_ Of rite, song. These articles formed probably the declinations of nouns, as we do not perceive a different desinense. This form was more like the Celtic, Oscan, and Greek, than the Latin. The feminine was formed nearly as in Italian, O changing to A.—_Taino_, _Taina_, Lord, Lady—_Hito_, _Hita_, Man, Woman; but there must have been irregularities difficult to trace: as some words masculine end in I, S, N, U, L. Perhaps some were neutral. Some words are formed by duplication, implying an amplitude, as in the Oriental language.—_Bi_ life, _Bibi_ mother and wife in dialects. _Ba_ habitation, _Baba_, _Vava_ Father. _Ma_ great, _Mama_ mother. _Xau_ cake, _Xauxau_ bread or large cake. The plurals are chiefly in I as in Italian, or in S as in Spanish; but there are some irregular plurals. _Taino_, _Taini_, Lord, Lords. _Hito_, _hitos_ man, men. EL son. ILI sons. _Zemi_ angel, _Zemes_ angels. The Eyeri dialect forms many plurals in UM. _Eyeri_ man, _Eyerium_ men; _Inaru_ woman, _Inayum_ women. The adjectives are put before or after the substantives, blending the two forms; and the prevailing form in compound words is doubtful, perhaps the regular as in Latin.