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— — " 9^ REPORT ON THE CENSUS OF BURMA, the entries recorded against natives of India in column 13 of the schedule (Language ordinarily used) were practically worthless. There was no expectation that a record of Indian dialects would be obtained, but it was hoped that where the language given was one of the well-known vernaculars such as Hindi, Bengali, Tamil or Telugu, it would be definitely shown as such in the schedule. I cannot say that even this hope was fully realized. I was at pains to issue to supervisors in those areas where there was a large number of native of India residents additional instructions in regard to these foreigners, among which figured a speci- " Hindu " were not to be fic injunction to the effect that the words " Musalman " or shown in column 13, as they were not the names of languages. I cannot, however, say that I was much surprised to find when the schedule came in that the number of cases in which the words " Musalman " and " Hindu " had been entered in column 13 was enormous. Hindu frequently meant Hindustani, but as frequently probably Hindi and too often it was obvious from the context that it stood for neither of these but for either Tamil, Telugu or Bengali. "Musalman" was as a rule no guide at all. There were other entries that militated against a correct classification. "Kala saga " (cxjcodsocods) " the foreigner's tongue," was the last resource of many a desperate enumerator, while " Bingala " (ooScods) " Bengali "was a term applied indiscriminately to the speech of persons from every portion of the Empire. The Madrasi coolies of the province are locally known as Coringhis and the fact that there was no Coringhi language seemed as difficult for enumerators to grasp as that the Chetties, the Sudras and some other castes were not the proud possessors of vernaculars of their own. On the whole the birthplace column gave a genneral idea of how to show doubtful languages and no pains were spared to gather from their surroundings what, in questionable cases, the correct entries should be, but it must be confessed that the net result was not wholly inspiriting. I trust that the enumeration of the above few difficulties out of the many that were encountered at this stage of the work of abstraction will enable my successor to anticipate and grapple with the most serious of them forearmed at the census of 191 1. Below is given a list of the principal Indian vernaculars and of the total number of persons shown as speaking them : Hindustani 95,122. Hindi 28,689. Bengali 204,973. 1 Tamil 99,576". Punjabi 15,803. J Telugu 96,601. , . 142. Of the vernaculars of Asiatic countries beyond India the only four of importance are Naipali, Chinese, Siamese and Malay. The strength of the population in whose mouths they were the " languages ordinarily used " were as follows : Naipali 5,463. | Chinese 47,444. | Siamese 19,531. j Malay 2,425. Of European languages, English heads the list with 12,237 male and 6,263 female speakers. Portuguese shows 267 male and 23 female. Spanish was spoken by 106 males, mostly Manilla half castes engaged in the pearl fishery of Mergui, German by 104 males and 22 females and French by 63 of the former and 19 of the latter sex. 143. Subsidiary Table No. VI-B appended to this chapter shows the number ., , ... .. of books published in the vernaculars of the province Vernacular publications. r . ,, _ . , , during the ten years 1891— 1900. It has been prepared with a view to giving a general idea of the progress or otherwise of vernacu 1 lar literature during the decade under review and to throwing light upon the movement in favour of its revival. It must be borne in mind, however, that the figures exhibited in the table are not wholly the result of indigenous literary effort. Foreign missionaries are reponsible for a portion of the publica' tions enumerated, and the totals include every work published in the selected vernaculars, whether alone or in combination with English. Burmese, it will be seen, heads the list with 701 publications. A large proportion of the Burmese publications are religious treatises. Next to Burmese comes Karen, with 42 publican tions. As might be expected, the Sgau-Karen books are far ahead of the Pwo in point of numbers. Kachin follows with eleven works, all published since the close of 1894. These are religious and educational and all from the pen of the Rev. O. Hanson of the American Baptist Mission. Among the eight Shan
REPORT ON THE CENSUS OF BURMA. 93 works is included Dr. Cushing's Shan Bible, published in September 1892. The subordinate place occupied by Talaing is an unmistakable sign of the decay of that language, which no doubt in time will be a .tongue of the past. The Chin work referred to in the table is a translation of the opening chapters of St. John's Gospel by Saya Pyizo, The Chin in question is apparently Yoma Chin or, as it is locally called, Saingbaung Chin. So far as they go, the figures tend to show that the low-water mark in vernacular literature during the past decennium was reached in 1894, an^ that since then there has been on the whole an increasing output of indigenous publications.
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