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THE INDIAN ANTIQUABY.
[OOTORER, 1895.
Chin Numorals.
Lai (Hika, Baungshd Chin).
styin Chin.
Newland, p. 80.
2. p. 30.
MacNabb, p. 37.
põkwa
põkates
pakàt" (pahat, p. 46). kat pönî ...
pa'nit ... ... . ... põbûm ... .. patům... pöli ...
pali ... põnge...
panga... põrük ...
parük ... põsêrî...
pasêri... ... pörgêb ... .
paryat
pakwû... põra ...
parâ ... ... põʻlêkåt65
lekat... ... ... somlakat pökül
.. fankal, fankwe ...lakrat pökül-1867-pökat sanmbûm sòmtûm
somtúra saDD II
sòmli ... saapoga sömngå
somag saumrük sömrük
somrak saumsēri sòmsêri
somsalt sanmrgeb sòmryat
somlyet ... saumkwa ...somkwa
somkůà chwêkat, shwêkat, zakat ...
zakat baungkåt, zarâ7 ... ta angkat
tald, zasom ... Daungrâ7a ... ...
som]
zakat
1,000 10,000
.
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# Written per by Dr. Newland, PB is really the ordipary sumprul coeficient, and becomes separable when other coefficients are neede. Qu, taskà pökit, one rupee ; mai pumbit, one pumpkin (p. 31). Coefficiente precede the morals, us in the Niga languages generally.
To this enquiror's car the sound then of the epeficient was pa. The more practised training of Col. Fryer made him writo it pwe. Mr. Houghton has plupa. Bee post.
• This 'w,-10 plus, issourious wago in the words for the "toena," and seems to mean "the following" one, two, eto. "Fan is noefficient.
Lemoans" with." The Siyin Chin's numerals neatly explain that saum (còm) is "ston, and that the expressions run 3, 4, 5, eto, sam (nom) for 80, 40, 50, eto.
Similarly chro (shoot) or sa = a hundred, and baung a thousand, and to the expressions in the text mean "one chrod (ahre) or sa," and "one Daung." 10 I., ten hundred, n I e., ten hundred.
1 1. 6., ten thousand.
