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speakers of these dialects, because they often, in the local returns, have been included in the general term Kuki. What we know is as follows:-

　In the Manipur State the Khongzis are settled throughout the length and breadth of the hill country and also in the Yongba Langkhong village in the valley. They are most numerous in the south-west and north-west. Their total number is estimated at 20,000.

　In the Nga Hills they are known as the Langtung colony. They are returned as Kukis and are said to number 5,500. They speak the Thdo language. In North Cachar there is said to be some speakers of Jangshn, but no particulars are given.

　Dialects of Thdo are spoken in the Cachar Plans. Most of them are here known as Sairang. They are settled in the east of the district, and their number is said to be 5,270. Saimar is spoken by a few individuals who have come down from the Cachar Hills to the south and east of the Sadr Sub-division in the Plains since the Census of 1891. The Deputy Commissioner gives the total for Rlt, Langrong, and Saimar as 399, without saying how many speakers there are of each. We may provisionally put down 133 for Saimar.

　One thousand and six hundred individuals in Sylhet are reported as speaking Standard Kuki. Only a few words, translated in different parts of the district, have been received. They seem to belong to the Langrong and Hallm dialects with the exception of some words taken down at the Sagarnal Punji, which apparently are Thdo. I have provision- ally put down 534 as speakers of that latter language.

　 The total of speakers of Thdo dialects may, therefore, provisionally be put down as follows:-

AUTHORITIES-

　MACRAE, JOHN,-Account of the Kookies or Lunctas. Asiatick Researches, Vol. vii, 1801, pp. 183 and ff. The short vocabulary partly agrees with Thdo, partly with Langrong.

　ADELUNG, JOHANN CHRISTOPH,-Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser al Sprachprobe in bey nahe fnfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten. Berlin, 1806. Mention of the Kukis, Vol. iv, pp. 67 and 469.

　BARBE, THE REV. M.,-Some Account of the Hill Tribes in the Interior of the District of Chittagong, in a letter to the Secretary of the Asiatic Society. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. xiv, 1845, pp. 380 and ff. Contains a short Kookie vocabulary on pp. 388 and ff. It does not agree with any of the known Kuki languages. The numerals seem to be old Kuki. STEWART, LIRUT. R.,-Notes on Northern Cachar. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. xxiv, 1855, pp. 582 and ff. Account of the Kukis on pp. 617 and ff. With a Thdo vocabulary.

　STEWART, LIEUT. R.,-A slight Notice of the Grammar of the Thadou or new Kookie Language. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. xxv, 1857, pp. 178 and ff.

　McCULLOCH, MAJOR W.,-Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill Tribes; with a Comparatire Vocabulary of the Munnipore and other Languages. Selections from the Records of the Govern- ment of India (Foreign Department), No. xxvii, Calcutta, 1859. Account of the Khongjais on pp. 55 and ff.; Vocabularies, Kookie or Thada, etc., Appendix, pp. vii and ff.

　DALTON, EDWARD TUITE,-Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal. Calcutta, 1872. Account of the Kukis on pp. 44 and ff., p. 111. Vocabularies, after Stewart, on p. 75.