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MORN.

　This language has not been reported by anyone as existing in British India, but the following notice concerning it is quoted from page 160 of Mr. Gait's Report on the Census of Assam for 1891, in order to complete the survey of the Bodo group:-

　 'One Bodo form of speech has escaped notice at the present census and also in 1881. The Morns of Sibsagar and Lakhimpur have a tribal tongue of their own. It is fast disappearing, and owing probably to their desire to rank as Ahoms, was not enterd as a language in a single instance in the census schedules. It is evidently very closely allied to Kachr (although the Morns are said to deny all connection with that people), as will be seen from the Kachr equivalents, which I have added to the following list of Morn words collected by Lieutenant Gurdon:-

English.	Morn.	Kachr.
Water	di	di.
Salt	sim	sankhri (sham, Tpur).
Paddy	mai	mai.
Rico	mairum	mairang.
Cooked rice	miym	mikhm.
Flesh	mohan	bidot (Tipur, muihn).
Sun	sn	sn.
Moon	dn	dn.
Stars	hatarai	htorkhi.
Heaven	dansa	akhrangs.
Rain	makuhang	nkh.
Tree	senfang	bangfang. Clothes
Clothes	hingka	hi.
Head	khero	khr.
Body	han	mdam.
Teeth	hatai	hthai.
Hand	hapka	khai.
Foot	happatola	atheng (yafa-tal = 'solo,' Tipur).
Male	hiwa	h.
Female	hichi	hingzhu.