ii6 THE LUSHEI CLANS CHAP.

The numerals are very simple:—

1 = pa khat ^ = pa li 7 = pa sari

2 = pa hnih 5 = pa nga 8 = pa riat

3 = pa thum 6 = pa ruk 9 = pa kua

10 = shorn

11 = " shorn leh pa khat," 12 = " shorn leh pa hnih," and so
on to 20 = " shorn hnih"; then " shorn hnih leh pa khat" &c., to
" shorn thum " = 30, " shorn li " = 40," shorn nga " = 50, and so on
to "za" = 100,"za leh pa khat" = 101, and so on to "shang" = 1000.

« Shing " = 10,000 and" nuai" for 1,000,000 are hardly ever
used; 8,975 = " shang riat, leh za kua leh shorn sari leh pa nga."

It will be seen that the real numerals are "khat," "hnih,"
" thum," &c., pa being equivalent to unit. It is usually omitted
when animals or things are mentioned, but retained when
speaking of human beings.

Lai pa sari=seven chiefs. Sebong nga=five cows.

With numbers above ten the name of the thing enumerated
if a monosyllable, is often repeated. Thus:—

Ni shorn hnih leh ni nga.
Days twenty and days five.

Ordinals are formed by adding" na " to the cardinals, thus:—

In shorn na lutrawh.
Enter the tenth house.

But—

Ni thum ni k lo-kalraw.
Day three day on come.
Every other day=Ni khat dan a.
Every third day = Ni hnih dan a,
and so on.

Numeral adjectives are formed thus:—

Voi nga, voi shorn leh voi khat.
Times five, times ten and times one,
eleven times.