Indian Antiquary Vol 27

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JANUARY, 1898.
This man farther gave me the following little table: -
1 pice is pyüng (and P chüp) 3 » are sôngchüp 1 anna is slchüp . ., 4 chup
3 annas are pyatchüp » 8 chüp | 8 9 P. Bipsôngchup • 12 chip
4 + + têng°° He also volunteered the information that in the hills of the same State the people called pice prông, which is evidently the same word as his own pyüng, and counted thus:
1 pice taprông 2 , naprông 8 + Bôngprông
litprông ngàtprông
Búprông - nutprông 8 • swatprông 9 , katprông
10 , tachiprong Now, all these numerals are those of the Hill Tribes, known to the Burmese as Taung 80s and to themselves as P'ao, to be found in the Maulmain and Thatôn Districts of Burma, in the Shan State of Thatôn (Satung) and other Shan States, and in Combodia. They are at the same time suspiciously near to being merely dialectic Burmese, thus:
Nos.
Burmese
Taungða.
Shen (Momeit Bills).
ts
tas ni 8ôn
ng
Bông
lit
ta (tit) ... 'na ('nit) .... bông lés .. nga:... chauk k'o'nit shit ... ... k03 ... . .. tas'è ...
ngat
ngåt
OVO
nit ... 8ôt kut ... tachis ...
sû nut swàt kut tacht
...
10
...
One might go on gathering evidence of dialectic forms almost indefinitely in the Shân Hills, but the above information and what follows will show that the farther one dives into the sea
5 Dr. Cushing, Dict, p. 317, givee pikaan avowedly for paisd, as the word for 'pioe.' To Evidently for pit.
C. Cashing, Shan Dict. p. 226, a bar of metal, the lat of the Siamese Sh&ns, see below in the textu Perhaps here for t'e, Chinese and Northern Shan for ' 4 annan.' Bee Cushing, San Diet. p. 270, and later on in the text.
See Taw-Sein-Ko, Memo. of a Tour in Parts of the Amherst, Shwegyin, and Pegu Districts, p. 4f.: Mouhot, Travele, p. 24. The Burma Cenow Report, 1891, pp. 166, 207, treats the Taung Qs ethnographically as merely branch of the Karens. So does Mr. Burgess, at p. 18 of Notes on the Languages and Dialects spoken in British Burma, an official publication, 1884: but in the same work Dr. Bennett is rather soornfal as to the official ideas on the subject : p. 15. Stevenson, Dur. Dict., gives "Slo-Taungth; one of the Bhan-Taungth Race," under Shan.'
* To these the Taung Mas add pd, us coefficient, musk atter the manner that the Shins add:1, süng or lüng to their namerals.