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 bears a close resemblance to the corresponding Burmese word, the older forms "amrang" apla," "anak," "kyak," "tamang," etc taking the lace of the modern "amyin" "apya" "anet," "kyet, "tamin" etc. The dress of the Taimgyo women, consisting of a smock, head-dress and garters of brass wire, is very much the same as that of the Taungthus near whom they live and the two have hitherto been classified together, but the form of the vernacular of the Taungyos may be regarded as proof positive that they are not a section of the Taungthus who have acquired the speech of their Burmese neighbours in the plains, but a Burmese-speaking community which established itself in the Taungthu country before the Burrnans as a body embraced Buddhism and has since then learnt to conform outwardly to Taungthu habits of life. The total of Taungyos in 1901 was 16,749.

It is much the same with the Inthas of Fort Stedman and the neighbourhood of the Yawnghwe lake whose language is described in the Upper Burma Gazetteer as " practically Burmese pronounced in Shan fashion," i.e., with "fang" for "in," "ak" for "et" and the like. The Inthas have practically adopted Shan dress and, but for their dialect and their aquatic mode of life would in all probability have been looked upon as Shans; but they are undoubtedly of Burmese stock. For a description of the Inthas the reader is referred to page 564 of Volume I, Part I, of the Upper Burma Gazetteer and page 68 of Sir George Scott's " Burma" (London, 1906). There were 50,478 Inthas enumerated at the Census of 1901.

The Yaws of the Pakôkku District have almost disappeared. Only eighteen persons returned themselves as Yaws in 1901. Their language is referred to at page 569 of Volume I of the Upper Burma Gazetteer as " a hybrid, nearest to Burmese now; possibly it was at one time