ABORS AND GALONGS. 



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English. 

 father 

 mother 



man 



young man 

 dog (generic) 

 dog (tn.) 



Abor. 

 abu 

 ane 



milong 

 ya-me 

 e-ki 

 e-ki ki-bo 



xALONG. 



Tibetan. 



abwa 



ab-pa 



ana 



a-ma 



nir-bong 



ni 





shu-pa 



e-ki 



ki 



e-ki 





gari-pwe ki-po 







ki-mo 





torn 



o-si-goh 



shing-dong 



bitch e-ki ki ne 



bear si-tum 



tree e-shing 



' e ' is an Abor affix frequently used to denote the Nominative case. 



In Abor, ne-shin means weeds, whilst e-shing means a tree ; shing is used in 

 speaking of particular trees, as follows : — the silk cotton tree shing-gi, trees of the 

 citron group shing-kin. 



English. 



Abor. 



Galong. 



Tibetan 



one 



(a) - ter (ko) 



leken 



chik 



two 



(a) - nyi (ko) 



(sir) - inyi - (ko) 



ni 



three 



(a) - um (ko) 



(sir) - um - (ko) 



sum 



four 



(a) - pi-(ko) 



(sir - pi - (ko) 



shi 



five 



(a) - nga-(ko) 



(sir) - nga - (ko) 



nya 



Ko, or kong, is given by Eorraine as the affix used in speaking of houses (with the 

 exception of the numbers 8 and 10). This differentiation of numeral adjectives by 

 numeral particles is met with in other cases. The personal pronoun I is ngo (or nya) 

 in Abor and Tibetan. I have also been informed that ' I ' and ' 5 ' are ' nya ' in 

 Burmese, a language that appears to possess the same peculiar differentiation of the 

 form of numeral adjectives as the Abor language. With reference to ' kong,' a house 

 in Abor is e-kum, but in Tibetan it is kang-ba. The Padam Abors call the space under 

 the house kit-kung. 



English. Abor. Tibetan. 



to die shi shi-wa 



an eye a-mik mig 



It is interesting to observe that the Tibetan word for an eye occurs in the Abor 

 phrase " a-mig mig yah a do-em " ' in the twinkling of an eye ' [Eorraine]. The verb 

 ' to see ' is dissimilar in the two languages. In noting that the words for articles of 

 commerce, such as salt, musk and wool, which might perhaps have been reasonably 



extinct animals, in the hope that they may be of interest. The equivalents of Nipong and Epom Ngang-po and 

 Apomu respectively, are not unlike the Abor spirits Sirnong is apparently called Rugau and the Padam people 

 Padam-le-apkai. The beyop is worn and called cho-bu House anyuk dao ai-oh, man mi-yn, woman ma mi, dhan dii-ki, 

 husked rice pum ki, fire d-mi, water shd-nu, tree hung-da, salt td-pu, fish ung-u, dog ak-eh, fowl A-chu, mithan d-shu, 

 pig ai-egu, death miu-shi-kov, birth u-chi-jungyi, apong is ai-yu, to drink it ai-chung mi, coat hug-di, the numerals one 

 to ten are akdn, neh, ham peh, pangu, s(h)ap, rang-al, rai-eng, kain-yem, hang-rago. If from so meagre a collection 

 any deduction appeared possible it would be that some of the words more nearly resemble their equivalents in Memba 

 and Bhotia than in Abor. 



