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　The last word in the table is ti, water. According to Jaeschke this word also occurs as a loan-word in Tibetan. If it is not originally an Indo-Chinese word it might perhaps be compared with Mu dak', Khmr dk, etc., water.

　The dialect spoken by the wild inhabitants of Askot Malla is called Janggal, i.e. jungle-speech. It will be dealt with in connexion with the other Almora dialects, though it does not belong to the same class. The reason is that the materials forwarded for the purposes of this Survey are so corrupt that it is impossible to say anything for certain about the affiliation of the dialect.