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Exceptional linguists at Primi |
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To Primi. The road good. The Primi fort and the Inspection Bungalow both pleasantly situated but water very short. The dobashi belonging to the guard does both dobashi and Chaukidar. He is a Karami man and ought really to be either a whole time dobashi or the Chaukidar at Karami. He does not get on too well with the Primi Gaonburas and when the Guard goes, Tserechu of Primi had better be made Chaukidar. He speaks Assamese. Meanwhile Lukinchu, the dobashi, is due 3 or 4 months of his Chaukidari pay and also a red cloth. The people here seem exceptional linguists, many of them seem to have a smattering of Assamese, Angami, Kuki and Manipuri to say nothing of Naked Rengma, Sangtam and the Stonehouse languages, and probably some of them can speak Sema. |
