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XIX. The Kachin Tribes and Dialects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

O. Hanson
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The tribes of Upper Burma and Eastern Assam known as Kachins have, both before and after the annexation of Northern Burma, attracted a great deal of attention from ethnologists and philologists. A considerable literature has accumulated on the subject since the time Colonel Hannay, in 1846, and Dr. Anderson, in 1868, gave us the first reliable information regarding these savage and warlike hill tribes. At present they occupy a large and fertile territory extending almost from 29° North latitude to 20° 30′. They number probably about half a million, of which one hundred thousand occupy independent territory, the larger part being under British or Chinese rule.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , April 1907 , pp. 381 - 394
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1907

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1 Transliteration and pronunciation of vernacular terms in this paper:—

Vowels: a as in ‘father’; ă, short and somewhat suppressed sound of a; e as in ‘ten’; ë as a in ‘ale’; i as in ‘machine’; u as oo in ‘moon’; ai as in ‘aisle’; au as ow in ‘cow’; aw as in ‘law’; and oi as in ‘oil.’

Consonants: all.of them as in English, with the exception of chy, the nearest equivalent of which is our ch; g is always hard; hk, hp, and ht represent the aspirated forms of the explosives k, p, and t. Thus, such words as Jinghpaw are pronounced as Jing-hpaw, never as Jingh-paw.