culiar dialect, more improved, however, than the
languages of the Sundas and Madurese; and in
particular, having a copious and refined language
of deference, borrowed from the Sanskrit and
Javanese.
The language of law, literature, and religion, is
the Kawi of Java, which, as written and taught
in Bali, offers no new feature of distinction. The
literature of the Balinese seems to be the same as
that of the Javanese in the days of their Hinduism
; and the ancient indigenous legends of the
Javanese are as well known in Bali as in their parent
island.
