OF THE INDO-CHINESE NATIONS. 



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ra-re 



The Barma affects a more delicate, but at the 

 same time inarticulate pronunciation than the Ruk- 

 hhig, and less conformable to the actual orthography 

 of the language. This is particularly obv^ious in the 

 conversion of r^ xwtoya in Banna; but the Rukheng 

 itself is not devoid of its peculiarities, among which 

 mav be mentioned the conversion of sha into ha. 



