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OCTOBER, 1898.)
CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
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numeral coefficient for rupee is t'ai, a round thing, and so Rs. 15 would be in this enumeration zakai-tám-tai-t'ám, and Rs. 42 would be rak'ai-zö.t'ai-niè.
The Kacharis also reckon, like their Indian neighbours, in rupees, annas, and pice, i. e., in their vernacular, in tak*& tunku), faisa (poish) and anå. For taka the numcrul coefficient is tai, and for faisd it is gat, while there is no coefficient for and. This much can be gathered from the following statements scattered about Mr. Endle's book:
pp. 36, 43 f. ... ... Rupee ... ..tanka, taka p. 60 ...
Re. 1... ... ...takâ t'aisi p. 58 ... ...
, t'ainüi ,, t'aitim .. t'aiba
, taizo
p'oisa gatue p. 42 ... ... ... 5. ... .. faisa gatba
6 annas ... ... ana rd, Ana-do p. 60 ... ... ... 10 . ... ..apa-zo The only word that Mr. Endle gives for the metals is that for gold, which is darbi, a word of distinctly Eastern (Naga) affinities. He gives nothing indigenous for the weights, but several obvious corruptions of such familiar Indian terms as man, sér, etc., are to be found scattered up and down his pages.
Mr. Endle did not go beyond ten in the Garo numerals given by him, apparently because of the limit of his indigenous Kachårt numerals, but the Gâro I examined carried his ou tu 100 and 1,000, thus:
Garo Numerals. 1 ... mang's
... mang ni
.. mang g’tàn mang’bri ... mang'bangê ...
... mang'dok mang'ent ... ... mang'chit53 ...
mangchika 10 ... mangchiking4 and u ... mang'chik's
... kôrg'ràk-55
..
8D
mang cho
mang'chisa 57
30 ... kôlachite ... ... 40 ... sotbr159
50 ... sotbanga ... sotdók
70 ... sots'nt ... ... 80 ... sotchit 90 ... sotchikû
... 100 ... arêch'sà ... ... 1,000... sotsik'ingo The mang' prefixed to the numerals of the first ten appears in two lists in Dalton's Ethnology of Bengal (p. 93) of tho numerals of the Bodos (Kachåris) and the Mêchs as man
The KachohA Naga uso ging , in Kach Art, numeral coofficient for flat things. 65 Also duplicated, chitchet.
Ring may be compared with the terminal syllable kò, king, kung already noticed among the Naga Languages. 46 Evidently "one score,"
56 Also duplicated, chichik'ing. BT So on to 19, using chi + numeral or chik + numeral at will. * Evidently a score and ten.
09 Sot, clearly " ten." Should be 100, being literally "ten tens": its uso for 1,000 is notable.
