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CURRENCY AND OOINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
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The words for the metals thus:35 -
generally in Kachin and Singphð seem to be identical,
Silver
Gola.
Brass.
Iron.
... m'gri ...
Kachin Singphô
... kump'rd, kampérông... jà ... kump'rông ... ... jê
... pri ... m'p'ri
...
... magi
..
I notice also that the word for weight in Singph is chen (p. 117), and that the Kachin word ga-an, (gd) hall, has its counterpart in the Singphô n'kau or kau-má (one-half).86 But it is in the namerals that the identity of Kaohin and singpho comes out, so far as the present enquiry is concerned.
Comparative Table of Kachin and singpho Numerals.
English.
Kechin.
Singpho.
suffixed ...
... l'ngai, ngai ... mi, mà ... ...
l'kong, lkwang...
... thông
suffixed
.....
..
m'sum, m'som
masum
malt
mangi
krû
... sinit
molf, ... " m’ngå ... ... ... krů, krap, kruk s'nit ... ... m'tsåt, m'sat ... ... j'k'u, s'k'a, ch'ků, ch’kon shlo7 st ... ... shtl'ngai, selingai
kan ... ... ... k'unl'ngai ... sumshi, sômst ...
... masat
chaka sl, tsi, sht sl-ai k'un
kunai ...dumst
* See Needham, pp. 87, 97, 100.
# The great difference, so far m I can judge, between the Singph0 and Kachia dialects, which would tondt make them mutually unintelligible, is that the accent in Kaohin is on the last syllable, whereas in Singphô it is on the finet. .. g., mgrt in Kachin would, in practios, have a very different sound to ma'gt in Singph), and they would not be to the ear at an identical words,
* Needham, pp. 72, 98.
1 According to the Myitkyini Kaohin, the "teens" ran thus - 3-'ngal, os-l'ling, 13-'m'34:, -w', and so on to a-t'f'kw, 19.
