^{page 62 note 1} For information about this dialect of Galla and bibliographical references see my article ‘Some Preliminary Observations on the Borana Dialect of Galla ’, BSOAS, 1957, xix/2, pp. 354–74 and The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa, by A. N. Tucker and M. A. Bryan (Handbook of African Languages, Part III, International African Institute), O.U.P. 1956.

^{page 62 note 2} In order to avoid confusion which might arise from the use of differing criteria, the following definition of Noun in this dialect is given: Noun is a grammatical unit which is capable of having Case Endings (of the type common to all Galla dialects) and which is also capable of Gender Concord with the Demonstratives and with the Verbal Forms.

^{page 62 note 3} The only documents in this dialect are translations of the Gospels of St. Luke (1934), St. John (1945), and The Acts of the Apostles (1954), published by the British and Foreign Bible Society.

^{page 63 note 1} For the notional association of these forms see Section XII. The term ‘General ’ was suggested to me by the fact that they can be associated with either Singularity or Plurality according to the context and are not limited to one particular category of Number.

^{page 63 note 2} For the method of transcription see my article ‘Some Preliminary Observations on the Borana Dialect of Galla ’, op. cit.

^{page 63 note 3} For the definition of stem see Section III.

^{page 63 note 4} As such forms are not very frequent, I have not been able, so far, to establish the conditions under which the reduplication takes place.

^{page 64 note 1} These forms are very rare and confined almost entirely to Nouns denoting persons; the sole exception known to me is the word dzíbit∫^a ‘a young bull, the young bull ’.

^{page 64 note 2} For the use of the Definite Article in the English translations of examples see Section XIII.

^{page 65 note 1} The Simple Case is defined as a case which is not a Subject Case, a Possessive Case, or a Dative-Ablative Case. The test frame for this Case is the possibility of occurrence in a two-word statement (non-question) sentence in which the first word is kun(in) or tun(in) ‘this, these ’, e.g. kunin árb^a‘this is an elephant ’ or ‘these are elephants ’. Simple Case corresponds to Forma Assoluta in Moreno's terminology.

^{page 65 note 2} This form could also be translated as ‘a slave ’ (see Section XIII).

^{page 65 note 3} námit∫^a means ‘the man ’, nam^a means ‘a person, a man ’ or ‘persons, men ’.

^{page 65 note 4} Further examples of the methods of affixation described in this Section may be found in the lists given in Section II.

^{page 67 note 1} There is a fairly large number of Nouns whose stems end in -s- but which it would be difficult to treat as Singulative Forms, as they have no corresponding General Forms. Moreover, these forms have always the same notional associations as the General Forms. E.g. dzáldees^a ‘a baboon or baboons ’, fít'ees^a ‘dew ’, wórsees^a ‘arhinoceros or rhinoceroses ’.

^{page 69 note 1} The division of verbal forms into Persons is based on potentialities of formal concord with Personal Pronouns.

^{page 71 note 1} I have met one speaker who maintained that the forms with the affix -owan-/-oowan-/ are associated with Multiple Plurality (‘Plural of the Plural ’), e.g. fárdoowanⁱ which, according to him, would mean ‘groups of horses ’ and not simply ‘horses ’. I have not been able, however, to obtain sufficient confirmation of this view from other speakers.

^{page 72 note 1} These folk-tales form a part of a manuscript collection of Borana stories, dictated to me by Mr. J. Galgalo Godana. The collection is, as yet, unpublished.

^{page 73 note 1} For the relevance of the particularizing elements in the Cushitic group and other African languages see the article ‘The T/K languages: a New Substratum ’ by Margaret A. Bryan, Africa, vol. xxix, no. 1, 1959, pp. 1–21.

^{page 73 note 2} dzíbit∫^a ‘a young bull ’ or ‘the young bull ’.

^{page 74 note 1} For bibliographical references to works on other dialects of Galla, including those mentioned in this article, see The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa.