KYOUNG. Burnt. A Buddhist monastery. All Burmese boys enter the monasteries as novices for the purpose of learning to read and write ; they must at least be eight years of age. Sec Monastery.
L is the twelfth letter in the English alphabet, and by grammarians is usually denominated a semi-vowel or a liquid. In the English language it has only one sound, as in like, canal, but in other languages is found interchangeable with r, n, d, u, and z. Letters with the sound of I are in use in all the written tongues of the East Indies ; but in the Vedas and in the Mahrati and other languages of the south of British India, 1 has a rather harsher sound, and in some parts of the Tamil country, medial 1 has the sound of cerebral r, and that of a cerebal 1 when final. In other parts of the Tamil region, 1 has the sound of 1r, and in others again of zh. L and zh are therefore frequently confounded. The languages of Southern India have a sound correctly expressed by zli, but taken by the untutored ear to be and written I even by scholars ; thus Tamil is properly Tamizh, Tuluva is Tuz-huva ; fruit, is also pronounced Piizhani. In non-Aryan
speech I sometimes takes the place of ill, sy, s, and j or other sibilant. L is used in China in the place of the letter r. L does not exist in Zend. In Japan d, and in New Zealand r, are substituted for I. Of all letters, 1 and r are the most subject to metastliesis, and after them the nasals.— Farrar's Families of Speech ; Dr. 1V. W. hunter; Il'ilson's Glossary.
LA, also Ka-La, of the Karens, a soul or spirit; in Karen belief, every animal, plant, everything, spears, knives, arrows, stones, have their indivi dual spirits. When the Ka-La departs, the thing dies or is destroyed. Besides his Ka-La, every man has a tso' spirit attendant on him.