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OCTOBER, 1898.]
CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
259
Kaki-Lashai Numerals.
Rangk’ôl.
Jansen.
Lůshai.97
The Eastern Luxuai
( Naring).
Soppitt, p. 33.
Soppitt, p. 81.
Soppitt, p. 87.
...lenka
...pekât98...
.. lak
... pânî
...
.. pare
... pâtîm ...
tali
... påli ...
ponga pârûk påsari pârît ... påkwa...
tanga tarók ranit ryat takû
sôn
...
hà
enkat ...
... suff. kat ... ...enni ... ...nf ...
suff. ni .. entům suff, tûm ...
mili ... ringah ...
garúk 99 sârî, siri100 garit, gârit?
gúbk ... .... .. shôm, shom-kat .. shómkat-18-kat...
shômni, shomennie shôm ni-lê-enkat
shômtům... ...| Shômmili...
shômringah shômgarûk
nhômsari... | 80 ... shổmgarit
| ... khôngủôk 100 ... rajâkât, rêjîkît ... ... fakât ... 1,000 ... shangkat... ....... shangkat
ha-lai-lak5
pirmit?
:
sing'am likongs lingåkongo litrokkông liranitkong liryatkông toakikông
kam ... t'nung (Barmese)
... jakât ... ... shangkat
97 Capt. Lewin's list (Ecercises in the Luchai Languaje), in Anderson's Notes, P. 13, is identical, except as to pariek 8, chom = 10. So also was that of one of my Lushuis, except as to 10, which he called chin. The "teens" he gave as shm-le-pakat, 10 with 1(=11), and so on : the "tens" he gave as shimni, two ten (= 20), and so forth,
One cannot help strongly suspecting that the progx pl. pd is a numeral coefficient. 99 Dialectic grik, irik: p. 80.
100 Page 77.
Page 78. Dialectic arft : p. 81. Dialectic agisk: p. 81. Page 63. I. e., a ten with one. I. e., a ten with one. Page 66 f.
From an expression to be found later on, given me by one of these men, a'mat ana, for "ten annas," I take the word pirmit to equal par-mit, i. e., two mat or mit, just as a'rnat would be strictly "one mat."
It is possible that Col. Fryer's explanation of " claps of the band " is referred to here in the suffix kong. ne prefix li, see the Angami Naga niinerals, ante, p. 209 f. 9 Cf. Garo chik'unz, ten : Eudle, Kachari Grammar, p. ii.
