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Notes of the Karen Language. 



[No. 2. 



Toungthu. The Toungthu, or Pa-au dialect has a v not found 

 in Sgau or Pwo, but with this exception, it is nearly related to the 

 Pwo with an occasional deviation towards the Bghai. No attention 

 however has been given to the dialect, beyond the collection of a 

 small vocabulary of words that I made half a dozen years ago, and 

 which was published, with some typographical errors, by Mr. Hodg- 

 son in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. 1, 1853, 

 under the name of Toungthoo and credited to Dr. Moreton. It 

 will be found corrected in my vocabulary of the dialects at the 

 close of this paper. 



Taru. All known of this dialect is the few words collected by 

 Quala, and given below, except the numerals which will be found 

 in the vocabulary. The numerals show the nearest affinity to the 

 Pwo, and are most remote from the Bghai. 



?art 



L Moo, 



Heaven 



Sgau 



Moohho. 



?> 



Haloo, 



Earth 



?> 



Haulchoo. 



?j 



JPamo 



Woman,female „ 



JPomu. 



?> 



JPahho 



Man, male 



>■> 



JPokhwa. 



j? 



Tahho 



Child 



5> 



JP7wtha/chwa, 



?> 



Tieta 



Salt 



Bghai 



Le-ta. 



5> 



Kle 



A road 



Sgau 



Klay. 



?> 



La 



Leaf 



53 



La. 



}> 



Ta 



Fruit 



Bghai 



Ta. 



>} 



Poola 



Betel leaf 



Pwo 



PJiula. 







i) 



Bghai 



Thapoolay. 



» 



Mamoote 



Areca nut 



?> 



Mamoota. 



5? 



Gnwa 



The mouth 



Pwo 



JSTo. 



5J 



Lakan 



The nose 



Bghai 



Nayhhede. 



")•> 



Say 



Boiled rice 



Sgau 



Me. 



if 



Zoo 



A house 



Bghai 



He* 



5J 



Te 



To return 



Pwo 



Taing. 



■>■> 



Ilswa 



„ come 



Bghai 



Sway to run. 



T> 



Plioo 



Good 



>> 



We-bay. 



In 



some of the Bghai sub-dialects the h is 



pronounced as 



if passing into z. 



