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On the Indo-Chinese borderers. 



[No. 1, 



that there are so few words of the Mru and Sdk languages given, 

 but as some time might probably elapse before they could be pro- 

 cured, I considered it best to forward them in their present state. 



Memo. 



Scheme of vowels, &c. &c. a to be sounded < 



is a in America. 



a 



. 





a in Father. 



i 



• • 



. 



i in in. 



1 



. . 





i in police 



IT 



• 



• 



u in push. 



u 







oo in foot. 



e 



. . 



. 



e in yet. 



e 



... 





e in there. 



ai 



. . . > • 



. 



ai in air. 



ei 



. 





i in mind. 



ou 



• ■ ■ • • • 



. 



ou in ounce. 



au 



... . . 





au in audience. 



o 



• . • . c o 



> . • 



o in note. 



th 



... » • • • 





th in thin, 



the aspirate of t. 



I have endeavoured to express the sounds of the Khyeng and 

 Kami languages as near as I can, but there are a few which I could 

 not exactly convey through any combination of European letters. 



N. B. — In the next or Tenasserim series of words the system of 

 spelling followed is the common English. I have not deemed it 

 prudent to alter it. These words were taken down by Dr. Morton, 

 not Capt. Phayre, as above inadvertently stated. Valuable as they 

 are, they lack the extreme accuracy of Capt. Phayre' s series, and 

 hence I have not extended my comparisons over them. — B. H. H. 



