JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.-HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. L—1884. 
A71 Exanimation of the Trade Dialect of the Naqqdsh or painters on 
papier-mache in the Panjab and Kashinir.—By Capt. R. 0. Temple 
B. S. C., F. R. G. S., M. R. A. S., &c. 
In the Selections from the Records of the Panjab Government, Sec¬ 
tion I, 1882, are some Linguistic Fragments by Dr. Leitner. Among 
these “ fragments ” at p. xviii, are some words and phrases, used by the 
Naqqash or papier-mache painters of the Panjab and Kashmir as a trade 
dialect or argot, and also at pp. 2 & 3 of the Appendix is a long list of 
numerals used by the shawl-weavers of Kashmir and the Panjab. 
The list of Kaqqash words is not very long and as they will all 
undergo examination in the course of this paper, I give them here in full, 
taking no further liberties with them than to re-arrange them to suit 
my remarks. 
Dialect of the Naqqash at p. xvii. of Leitner’s “ Linguistic Frag- 
mentsP* 
1 ekam. 
2 handish. 
3 yendir. 
4 tzownter. 
5 atilaq. 
6 shank. 
7 shank ekam. 
8 hasht berik; athwotur. 
Numerals. 
9 athwatir ekam. 
10 za-atilaq. 
15 tre-atalaq. 
20 tzor-atalaq. 
25 pau-dukh. 
50 odh-diikh. 
100 diikh. 
A 
* The transliteration is Dr. Leitner’s. 
