In getting down from a tree, a bear caught him.
I did nothing at all. I did not see you.
I will not listen to your story.
Don't leave me.
Lift this box.
Chase the cattle.
Do your work, and don't make a row.
If you are idle, I shall get you beaten.
Wake me in the morning.

I shall require two elephants for my luggage.
If there are no elephants tell the mauzadar to send coolies.

One should not laugh in presence of the Sahib.

From:
An Outline Grammar of the Deori Chutiya Language spoken in Upper Assam, with an introduction, illustrative sentences, and a short vocabulary, by W[illiam] B[arclay] Brown. Shillong: printed at the Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1895. Brown was Assistant Commissioner, North Lakhimpur. This is the first and only extensive printed vocabulary of the language.

 

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