HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES.

Name of the dialect.	NUMBER OF SPEAKERS.
	Local estimates.	Census of 1904.
Brought forward.	92,355	100,887
Ykh...	1,250	1,366
Limbu...	24,045	23,200
Khambu and Rai...	41,490	43,954
Rng...	34,894	19,291
Dhml...	...	611
T...	200	170
TOTAL.	194,234	189,479

　 The above figures do not include the speakers of the various dialects in Nepal. Several of them being properly Nepalese languages, the figures can only give an imperfect idea of the number of speakers.

　Speakers of three other Nepalese dialects have turned up at the last Census of 1901 within British territory. The details are as follows:-

Name of dialect.	Where spoken.	Number of speakers.
Km...	Assam...	11
Bhrmu...	Assam...	15
Vyu...	Assam (90), Bengal (24)...	114
Mnjh...	Bengal (515), Assam (387)...	902
TOTAL.		1,042

　Sixty-four speakers were further returned under the head of Kirnt, viz., fifty-eight from Assam and six from the United Provinces. It is not stated which of the so-called Kirnt dialects is meant. The number of speakers of the dialects under consideration within British territory at the last Census was accordingly 190,585.

　The dialects spoken by the Kms and Mnjh do not fall within the scope of this Survey, and nothing is known about them. They will not, therefore, be dealt with in what follows.

　The Kms are the blacksmiths of Nepal. According to Sir Herbert Risley they are probably immigrants from India, who have intermarried freely with some of the indigenous races of Nepal. No information is available about their language. It is not, however, probable that they speak a separate dialect.

　The Mnjhs are the fishers of Western Nepal. No information is available about their dialect, if they have any.