52 G. E. Fryer — On the JLhyeng people of S ' Mdoway, Arahan. [No. 1, 



1 



hot 





20 



goi 



2 



hni 





21 



goi ne pu??diot 



3 



htuni 





30 



htuni gip 



4 



mli 





31 



htum gip puwdiot 



5 



lingo 





40 



mli gip 



6 



sop 





41 



mli gip puwahot 



7 



she 





100 



pia hot 



8 



shap 





101 



pia Ion ne purnhot 



9 



go 





121 



pia goi ne puwmot 



10 



ha or 



hnga 



1000 



pia hnga. 



11 



ha ne 



pumhot 



1001 



pia hnga Ion ne puwzhot 



12 



ha ne 



puhni 







The numerals 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, are borrowed from the Burmese ; ' goi' 

 twenty is evidently a corruption of the Chittagong ' kuri' ; goi ne pu/zmot 

 is twenty with one ; htum gip, thirty; mli gip forty, up to ninety, signify 

 three claps, four claps of the hand, the word ' gip' being a corruption of the 

 Burmese word ' akhyet', a stroke or blow ; pia Ion ne puwdiot is one hundred 

 onore with one. 



The same peculiarity in the use of numerals which characterizes the 

 Burmese and other Turanian tongues, exists in a modified form in Kbyeng. 

 When applied to mankind, the exponent particle ' pum' a body or thing is 

 usually prefixed, as ' khlaung pun htum' three onen ; and in reckoning of a 

 group of individuals or things, the computation proceeds thus ' pu7;mot,' 

 ' pun hni', ' pun htum', ' pum mli' &c. When the numerals are applied to 

 individuals of the brute creation, they are preceded by ' zum' for quadrupeds, 

 and ' litek' for fish, each signifying a brute animal ; and ' yum' a creeper 

 for reptiles. But these particles are rarely used.* 



On Verbs. 



Most verbs in Khyeng are formed from the abstract root by the addi- 

 tion of certain prefixes and affixes. 



In the Indicative mood the verb is in its simplest state, unconnected 

 with any other to modify its operation. 



There are three tenses, the Present, Past, and Future ; the affixes to 

 denote these are for the Present ' u' ; the Past ' niu', or more commonly with 

 the auxiliary ' bri', as ' bri niu' ; the Future ' ei', which perhaps may be a 

 contraction of the root ' wof to wish. 



The affirmative verb usually takes as a prefix the contracted form of 

 the pronoun. 



* Professor Summers styles tliem ' exponent particles', which appears a more ap- 

 propriate term than ' numeral generic affix.' 



