1884.] 
Trade Dialect of the Naqqdsh. 
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1 nal-as, ak-ara. 
2 to-r, to-ra, to-rat. 
3 tre-wai, ek-wai. 
5 pa-lo, pan-do. 
6 slm-pp, clie-li, pnchhar-ri, che- 
blu. 
7 sat-elu. 
8 at-eln. 
9 no-ik, na-relu. 
10 de-ik, das-elu. 
15 par-eln. 
20 bis-ik. 
100 sad-ik. 
f pa-n-as. 
The qm in pn-chha-ri, 6, perhaps purposely inserted for secrecy, is a 
curious and notable prefix. It occurs again in the Zargari Hindustani as 
])u-chha-riha, half a pice, but apparently really meaning one-sixth. 
The compound numerals show how clearly these dialects bori'ow 
from the surrounding idioms for their expressions. The conjunction in 
the following is pure Panjabi, meaning and. 
6 kanziin-^e-bin. 
7 kanziin-te-handish. 
8 kanziin-fe-yindir. 
25 hazun-^e-atilaq, hazun-^^e-kanziin. 
In the following the same conjunction is pure Hindi. 
7 lamnian-a^tr-sanni. 
8 lamman-(X^tr-trewai. 
9 lamman-a-zz-^'-airan. 
So, too, we have pure Hindi. 
9 bin-/^a7?^-zun, one less ten. 
Lastly, the principles on which the following compounds are con¬ 
structed will be at once recognized as ordinarily current in the modern 
Aryan languages of India. 
15 dod-ziin, I|^ times ten. 
25 pau-dukh, ^ hundred; dai-ztin, 2^ times ten. 
50 odh-diikh, half hundred; kan-wat, half hundred, tal-ser, half 
hundred. 
There remains but one word to notice, dandan, half, Zargari Panjabi, 
which may be an inversion of adh, a common trick in the slang < " ' -aders 
and bad characters. 
I therefore think that the numerals raise a strong presu in 
favour of considering these dialects to be real dialects and relics of a by¬ 
gone speech, or form, of speech as opposed to mere slang. 
Let us now turn to the other words given by Dr. Leitner and com¬ 
pare them. Unfortunately they are not numerous and complete enough 
to satisfactorily upset or confirm the conclusions the study of the nume¬ 
rals would lead us to. But an examination of them is very encouraging, 
as the majority succumb under comparison with existing idioms and 
languages, and prove themselves to be either relics or adaptations of 
