Indian Antiquary Vol 27

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

Page 15

JANUARY, 1898.) CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
of dialects the more certainly do the forms become explainable. Here is a list from a Shan from Pindya near Mektile :
No.
Pioe.
A24.
Sense of the terms for
Annas.
bad& ... nadů ... bômkas lidû ... ngadu suda ... nuda ... bwàtd 85 kôdu ... tasi ...
6
tape ... tamu ... bompe ... tamat ... agapet bômmi... bomm@tape ashank ashaaktape ... chankmü ... chaakmůtape ... bômmat .. bômmàttape .. takyàtgèamû87 takyatyònpê ...
.. 2 mû ... 3 pê -... 1 mặt
5 pet 3 mů 3 mů 1 pe a balf (?) a half (?) 1 på 6 mû 6 mû 1 pe 3 mặt 3 màt 1 pê
1 rupee less by a mů ... 1 rapee less by a pe
.........
One rupee was given as tabi, which is evidently the Burmese tabyát, pieca. Barmese influence is here clearly seen in the table for annas; and the dialectic forms for the numerals in the pice table give curiously connective forms between the Burmese and the Taung8Q numerals.
To show how the Shân dialects meet and how thoy are influenced by their surroundings or reminiscences, I give here a comparative table of the parts of a rupee, as enumerated to me by illiterate Shans, respectively from Bhamo (Mannd, Chinese influence), Theinni (Northern Shan, S'ênwt), and Wantho (Western Shan, i e., from the late Shan State of Wanbo, West of the Irrawaddy).
A Comparative Shar Money Table.
Bhamo Bhan.
Theinni Shan.
Wuntho Shan.
English.
Term.
Sense
Теста.
Sense.
Term.
Sense.
... yipe
3 pe
Four
One anna
... kanywe ... 9 ywe ... songkyap. 2 ky&p Two annas ... molüng ...
sonpe ... 2 pê ...mûläng ... a mû Three sampa
sampe ... 3 pe ... sampe ... yimàt
yite ... 1 t'& ... sipê ... 4 pe Five håpe ... 5 pê ... têpe
têpe ... a t'ê & a pé. hâpé ... 5 pê Six hòk pê
hồkpe ... 6 på ... sammů ... 3 mů Seven sitpe
sam mupé .13 mů & a po. sammupo . 3 mů & a pê Eight songte ...
pitpe ... 8 pe ...songte ... 2 te Nine »
songtepe . 2 tê&a pel kaupe ... 9 pe ...songtepe . 2 tê & a pe Ten
.
sippe ... 10 pê ... chaukmu . 6 mů ... sippe ... 10 pe Eleven ... sipitpe ... 11 pd ... sipitpe ... 11 pê ... chaukmape 6 mů & a pê
& KQ is an odd foem, but was insisted on. Also an odd form, but pet is used for 'anna' later on in the text. # De, not ta, as one might expect
The Greaw above given : ashear according to Shin from Thatda (Stang) State. Another Shin from the same State gave me the odd form of Chinese look, nanliang, for "eight a nas." The word is püng in Siamese Sblia according to Cushing, Dict. p. 372
Yon evidently "less by."