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BURGAND.

　This is the dialect of another vagrant tribe. It has been returned for the purposes of this Survey from Nimar and from the Central India Agency. The following are the revised figures:-

　Burga is closely connected with Kaik. It is apparently dying out, and the specimens received from the districts are very unsatisfactory. A version of the Parable and a short popular tale have been forwarded from Bagli in the Indore Agency and will be reproduced below. A list of Standard Words and Phrases was received from the same district, but it was too corrupt to be printed. A short specimen was also received from Nimar, but did not contain any new forms. The Burgais of Nimar assert that they have immigrated from Khandesh. They also call themselves Kulrangs or Kargas.

　The short remarks on Burga grammar which follow are based on the materials mentioned above, and are given with every reserve.

　Nouns.-There are no traces of different genders in the specimens. The natural gender is distinguished by adding , male, and pha, female. Thus, va ny, a dog; va pha ny, a bitch. But the plural and the cases are always formed in the same way. The suffix of the plural is g; compare Kaik. Thus, rp, a man; rg, men: ghwa, a son; ghwaag, sons; ny, a dog; nyag, dogs.

　The usual case suffixes are, dative and accusative k; ablative k and kun; genitive , n, and no suffix; locative k and k. Thus, gvak, to the father; rp-k, from a man; ukun, from the house; nin gv u-k, in thy father's house; nan kkn mg, my uncle's son; r-k, in the country; u-k, in the house.

　We occasionally also find accusatives such as ghwa-ag, the son.

　Numerals.-The numerals are the same as in Kaik. 'Nine' is, however, ommad, and 'twenty' ird. Higher numbers are reckoned in scores. Thus, ra ird pat, two times twenty and ten, fifty; aj ird, five times twenty, hundred.

　Pronouns.-The following are the personal pronouns:-

n, I.	n, thou.	ad, he.
nanak, to me.	nnak, to thee.	attak, to him.
nan, my.	nn, thy.	atn, his.
nag, we.	ng, you.	aj, they.
nagal, nagl, our.	ngl, your.	asag, their.

　Other pronouns are tigal, to him; j, who? Yatn, whose? M, what? Compare Kaik.

　 It will be seen that the form ad, he, is the neuter form, corresponding to Tamil adu, that.

　Verbs.-The list of words gives the following forms of the present tense of the verbs substantive-

Sing.	1. Sir	Plur.	1. Sir.
	2. Sir		2. Sir.
	3. Sir		3. Sir.