Pu PAU CIN HAU LAI

 PauCin Hau in a lai bawlkhiat dan hichi in na gen hi:

1902in mang khat ka nein awn hi. Ka mang in mikangte khat, Pasian’melpuin ka mu hi.Suangnoute zang in laimal melpuakdan hon sinsak a, tuategawmkhawmin laibu khat a suah hi. Ken zong tuate ka sin a a tawp in kalohchinga huchi in ka mi thong vak hi.Ka ihmutna pan a ka thohin laimal melpuakdan leh gindante ka sin nopnalehh sinsak nopna lianlua ahihman in laidal a ka gelhkhiak matan sun lehzanin ka ihmu theikei hi

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1Rev.S. T. Hau Go in hichin na gelh hi:

Amangmuhna sungah Pasian in suangtang pawlkhat gawm zel khen zelinmidangte in zong ama hih banga hih dingin a sawl ciangin a hih theiom louh hi. “Pau CinHau aw, nang na hih thei hiam, kisin dih in,” ci a Pasian in asawlciang in Pu Pau Cin Hau in a hih leh a hih thei hi. A mang sungaPasianin a hilhbangin aman zong sinsin kisa-in a muk bang phunphun den a, akiima pama omte in a hai na sa zawzen uh hi. A hih hangin amah a haihiloin, a lai a gelhgelh hi a, a sawt ciang in suanglai tungah gitgitin gelhgelh a,nidang a omngei nai het lo lai thak khat hong piangkhia sak hi.

2.PauCin Hau in laimalte’ melpuakdan leh gindan te a bawl khit inZomite’ awsuah tohkituak ding in hon lemlem hi.

3.Tedim pau a awmal/kammal om tengteng kaikhawm inlaimal khat chiat apusak vek hi. Kammal khat laimal khat a putsak theihna ding in“laila”kichi gui tampi leh dawng 60 vel nei a phuak hi.

4.A dawng masapen tuh:

“Iibang khem tua in hong ci kawh tawh hawh ding ciah tan pil tom duaihak sau kawi pau” chih ahi.

 5.Rev.S. T. Hau Go in hichin na gelh hi:

…tualaila sa thei in gelh thei leng, Tedim pau aw-mal khempeuh lai inakigelhthei hi pah hi…tu dong in khanglui upa pawlkhat in thei lai uh hi.

Awmaltengteng a gindan chi nga- awtom, awsau, awngat, awkia leh awkah –in khen a,awgindankhennate “dawngtawina” chi in hiai dungzui in laibu chi guk inkhen hi.

6.Huaitetuh:

NO   TAN         BUMIN                LAIMAL OMZAH

1.     Khatna     Ii Bu                       168

2.     Nihna       Min Bu                   171

3.    Thumna    Dongleng Bu        156

4.     Lina          Lunsia Bu              246

5.     Ngana     Thatuk Bu              146

6.     Gukna     Thuamzung Bu     164

7.                      Laimal Buppi        1051

Fig.1 1931 kuma British and Foreign Bible Society ten Mualtung ThuhilhnathuPau Cin Hau Lai tawh a khet uh.

                                                                          Fig:2 Pau Cin Hau Script

NOTES:

1.Translated from anextract of Pau Cin Hau’s own verbatimas reported in I.J.Bennison in “A Note on theIndigenous Races of Burma”, in Captain J.H. Green,Census of India,1931, Vol. XI, Part I, reproduced in Sing Khaw Khai,

ZoPeopleAnd Their Culture

,(1995) p. 119 published by Khampu Hatzaw, BCPW, 85– PDA Complex, Lamphelpat, Imphal. See also, Rev. Khup Za Go, ChinChronicles,p. 103; Tualchin Neihsial, India-Burma Gamgi Bul ASingtangmite’Dinmun.2.“LaiThu”, in

ZOLUSJournal

,No. 2, 1997 p. 53, Zomi Literature Uplift Society,editedby C. Thang Za Tuan, CLC Computer, Rangoon, reproduced fromChinMagazine, 1971-72, Mandalay, hereafter cited as“Lai”.3.Vung D. Tombing,“Pu Pauchinhau Sukte”, in

PaitePau Sinna

,(1995) p.42,Boardof Secondary Education Manipur, Convention Press, Lamka,hereafter cited as “Pauchinhau”4.Rev.S.T. Hau Go, “Lai” p. 535.Ibid,p. 536.Vung D.Tombing, “Pauchinhau” p. 42. See also, Tualchin Neihsial,India-Burma.7.T. Suan Khan Mang, “Zolai Simbu ThuPianzia”, in

CiimnuaiMagazine,(1994)