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Here ' koi ' and ' shang' are evidently corruptions of the Burmese words ' kyo' 

 and ' hten'. 



The root ' ey' affixed to the root ' sun' (to hear, suffer) helps to form the 

 passi ve voice, thus ' kie tuk ka sun ey u' I am killed ; ' kie deng kasun ey u' 

 I am beaten, but it is rarely used. 



There appear to be only three substantive verbs, namely, ' moi' to be, 

 exist ; ' shi' to be true ; and ' ti' to be, thus : 



kie nam zam kamoi u, I am the village elder. 

 shi ba, it is, yes. 

 pikha ti u, what is it ? 



The Interrogative particle is ' mo', added at the end of a sentence, as, — 

 ' Naun a shami moi u mo' have you children ? If there is any other word 

 in the sentence implying interrogation, it is frequently omitted, as ' naun 

 ani u' who are yott, ? 



The suppositional particles ' a', ' na', or ' dina', implying if, are affixed 

 to the verbal root, which drops the prefixed contracted pronoun, as, ' kie zei 

 kho na kazei ei' I loill do it if I can. 



The negative verb does not take the prefixed contracted pronouns. To 

 express simple negation, (1) the letters n, m, or mb, maybe prefixed either 

 to the verbal root, to the particles of tense, or to both ; (2) the hard 

 initial consonant of a root, such as k, t, p, and s, is changed into its corre- 

 sponding soft consonant g, d, b, and z ; (3) the root often requries the sub- 

 stantive verb as an auxiliary. 



shi ba it is. nshi nu it is not. 



s\t hpa u {you) may go. zit hpa mbu (you) may not go. 



kie kapek u I give. kie mbek shi nu I am not giving. 



kang u. mo is he well? ngang nu {he) is not well. 



kie ka klauk u I am falling. kie nglo nu I am not falling. 



ya koi no u mo is she pretty ? goi no nu {she) is not pretty. 



Prohibition may be expressed either by the particle ' an' or ' n' imme- 

 diately after the root, as ' sit e' go {thou), i lo e' come {thou), ' zit an e' go 

 {thou) not, ' lo ne' come {thou) not ; or by the particle ' ti' immediately 

 after the root and its auxiliaries as — ' zi£ la shi di' {you) must not go ; ' hot 

 a lo ei ti' come not to-morrow. 



Adteebs appear to be used indiscriminately in composition. 



The language being poor in conjunctions, participles are largely made 

 use of to supply the deficiency. 



Post-positive particles are used in the same manner as the prepositions 

 of Western tonsrues. 



