Sgau 



Bghai 





Mo 



Men, 



Mother. 



Mie 



Mie 



Name. 



Mu 



Man 



Happy. 



JJhamu 



Thamo 



Live. 



1858.] Notes of the Karen Language. 147 



It has both an initial and final v passing into/ 5 in one of the sub- 

 dialects ; as : 



Mopgha Vuv To offer Pwo Boung. 



„ Veto „ make an end „ Louk. 



„ Vedz „ guide „ Thoung. 



There is a final dz in Mopgha, not found in the other dialects, as ; 

 Mopgha JPudz To instruct Pwo Thoung. 



„ Hsiedz „ seize „ Phie. 



„ Jjapodz, the spider „ Khan. 



Several words which are formed of m followed by a vowel in the 



other dialects, have the same consonant preceded by a vowel in 

 Mopgha, as : 



Mopgha Pwo 



Am Mo 



Km Meing 



Tim Muk 



Lem Mung 



"When these words are preceded by another word with an inherent 

 vowel, the inherent vowel is dropped and the consonant is united 

 with the vowel of the root, as : 



Za ray, and am mother, become Kim my mother. 



Na thy, „ „ „ „ Nam thy „ 



Na thy, „ umpo musket „ Numpo thy musket. 



AYhen the first word is followed by a distinct vowel, the initial 

 vowel of the second word is dropped ; as : 



Kay our, and am mother, become Kaim our mother. 



Nai your, „ „ „ „ Nairn your ,, 



Words with a final v are subject to the same rules, as : 

 Latu a city av in, become Latuv, in the city. 



Panay buffalo „ „ „ Panaiv in a buffalo. 



The Mopgha has a peculiar hissing sibilant which seems to 

 take the place of hs in the other dialects ; th is wanting, beiug chang- 

 ed to t ; and z shakes the place of y. Altogether it is the most pecu- 

 liar of the Karen dialects, and yet is spoken by not more than two 

 thousand people, who speak it in two or more well marked sub- 

 dialects. 



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