Indian Antiquary Vol 27

SR No.: 032519
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 404
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

Page 261

OCTOBER, 1898.]
The little works of Mr. Houghton and Col. Fryer are on a footing very different from that of the works above mentioned. Mr. Houghton's brief, but withal laborious, notes are the results of the observations of a practised and highly-trained scholars and those of Col. Fryer are the work of a writer who knew what he was about from a philological point of view. Both works are, however, slight. But they tell us enough to show that the dialect of the Southern Chins differs considerably, though not essentially, from that of their brethren much further North. Witness the numerals quoted by Mr. Houghton and Col. Fryer :
Southern Chin Numerals.
Mr. Houghton (p. 19 f.).
1
2
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
20
21
30
31
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
101
121
1,000
1,001
x.
***
pe
...
...
upp
...
...
CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
...
hò (hât)%
'ni
...
t'ün (tûn) m‘li (‘li)
'ngo
'sok
...
...
...
...
Funkyit-ho m'likyit.... haukkyit
...
'si
'aè
ko
'nga (ha) ng hò go (kur)
gohò
tünkyi (gip, p. 98)
'sokkyit
'sikyit
'sèkyit....
kokyit
p'yaho
...
..
...
...
...
..
...
...
********
******ppp
tatông (Burmese)
.......................
www
.00
...
IM
Col. Fryer (p. 14).
hot (n'hat)
'ni (pan-'ni)75
t'un (t'um)
| m‘li (li)
'ngo ('ngan)
sop (sauk)
she (s'ê)
ship, ship (sat) ...go (ko)
hà, ‘ngà (bâ) ha-no-pañhot
gôi (kur)
goi-ne-punhos
t'umgip (t'ngip) t'umgip-punhote m'ligip
nggip
sopgip
...shegip ... shapgip
gogip
pikbot (ki-ke) pillon-ne-puñhot
pil-gai-ne-puñhot
pilagh (ten hundred) pia ngàlon-ne-punhots
78 Much as I would have liked to have adopted Mr. Houghton's transliterations as they stand, I have felt obliged to change them to those adopted in this work for the sake of clearness.
74 The words in brackets these writers call Northern Chin.
T These expressions mean:-100 beyond with 1, ten hundred beyond with 1.
79 This, I take it, means "a hundred (and) a score with one."
255
7 Pan is a coefficient.
76 Pun is a coefficient, and these numerals run thus:-10 with 1, 20 with 1, 30 with 1,
These are clearly "a ten," and the numerals run 3, 4, 5, eto., tena.