(3) kl: kl: This occours with noun s meaning eye, rice and things made of rice. m-kl kl-sa ‘one eye’ may kl-sa ‘one rice’ khamc&µy kl-sa ‘one popped corn’

(4) ka: This occurs with nouns denoting flat things like hand fan, mat, etc. lamthay ka- cha ‘one mat’ ri ka- cha ‘one cloth’ kichip ka- cha ‘one fan’

(5) kan: kan: This occurs with nouns denoting an area of land. kht kan- cha ‘one field’ ha kan- cha ‘one land(a piece land)’

(6) kay: kay: This is the most general classifier and occurs with almost all the nouns. It can be used with any noun in place of its regular classifier. It has three phonologically conditioned allomorphs ku which occurs before nµy ‘two’, k« which occurs before tham ‘three’ and kay which occurs elsewhere (c.f.) bsa ku-nµy ‘two children’ buruy k-tham ‘three women’ pahar kay- cha ‘one mountain’

(7) kuN : This occurs with nouns denoting limb or parts of the body. ya-si ku- c&ha ‘one finger’ yaku ku- c&ha ‘one leg’

(8) kuru : This occurs with mass nouns. utla kuru-sa ‘one swamp, some areaof swamp’ bahan kuru---- sa ‘some amount of flesh’.

(9) khk: This occurs with nouns denoting things made of metal. ra khk-sa ‘one rupee’ c&hE khk-sa ‘one sword’

(10) khrk: This occurs with nouns denoting humanbeings. brk khrk-sa ‘one man’ cray khrk-sa ‘one lad’

(11) khu: This occurs with nouns denoting a physical layout such as room, village etc. nk khu- ca ‘one room’ kami khu- ca ‘one village’

(12) cap: This occurs with nouns denoting a meeting point of water ways or roads. lampra cap- cha ‘the meeting point of roads’ tµypra cap- cha ‘the meeting point of rivers’