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Notes on the Heumu or " Shendoos." 



[No. 3. 



of face, not so markedly Mongolian as the countenances of many of 

 the Aracanese ; but his follower had the broad flattened features to a 

 much greater degree. 



I append a short vocabulary, and a few of the commoner sentences 

 in their language, which has no written character. The dialect is 

 exceedingly guttural, gh being exactly rendered by the Arabic £ and 

 kh by the Persian £ while in their vowel sounds eu and u have pre- 

 cisely the sounds of the French vowels in deux, and u in flute, &c. 



English. 



Heumd. 



A man. 



Che pa. 



A woman. 



Che noung. 



A boy. 



Metha. 



A son. 



(The same). 



A girl, or daughter, 



Chenoungta. 



A father. 



Eupa. 



A mother. 



Oonau. 



A chief. 



Abeu. 



A wife. 



Peenoung. 



A good man. 



Chepa p'ha 



A bad man. 



Chepa p'hachoo or p'hawe 



My. 



Kumma. 



Your. 



Nummyng. 



Large. 



Lepee. 



Small. 



Chota (!) 



A village. 



Koo. 



A hill. 



Kid. 



A forest. 



Holey. 



A stream* 



Peva. 



Rain. 



Aveu. 



Wind. 



Kliihhoo. 



A dog. 



ir. 



A fish. 



Nga (as the Burmese el?). 



A pig. 



Vo. 



A cock or heik 



Ah. 



An elephant. 



Mushey. 



A tiger. 



Chukorn. 



A monkey. 



Ayaw. 



