ed from the work of Sir Stamford Raffles, and its
correctness may be trusted. The specimen of the
languages of he South Sea islands is that of the
Atui, taken from the third volume of Cook’s voyages.
It is, like all o hers from the same and similar
sources, scan y .nd unsatisfactory. The selection
of words in the original is extremely injudicious,
and many examples bear internal evidence of
error and ignorance. The specimen of the language
of Timur, the most prevalent of the many
dialects of the island, and of that of Rotti, were
collected by Lieutenant Owen Phillips, a gentleman
well versed in the Malayan language, and
their chief defect is their brevity. The specimen
of the language of the Samang, or woolly-haired
race of the mountains of the Malayan peninsula,
was collected for me by the minister of the prince
of Queda, a man of very superior mind, and corrected
by my friend Major Macinnes, after Mr
Marsden, among Europeans, perhaps the best Malayan
scholar existing. The examples of the Madagascar
are from the well-known narrative of Robert
Drury, who lived fifteen years among the natives.
It carries with it internal evidence of authenticity,
and the errors into which the writer has
fallen are those only incident to an untutored and
unlettered mind, errors in orthography and of up*
skilfulness in selection.
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VOCABULARIES.
The letters o, c, and a, within brackets in the following Vocabulary,
express respectively—ordinary,—ceremonial,
and ancient. The numerals point out the arrangement of the
languages into classes.
E n g l is h sky
1. Javanese (o.) langit
Javanese (c.) ngawiyat
Javanese (a.) hakoso
jumantoro
g&gono
Malay langit
2. Bali (o.) langit
Bali (c.) angkasa
Madura (o.) langih
Madura (c.)
Sunda (o.) langit
Sunda (c.)
Lampung langit
3. Biajuk langit
4. Bugis langih
Macassar langih
5. Timuri
Rotti
6. Atui hairani
7 . Samang - kael
Madagascar longitchs
English star
1. Javanese (o.) lintang Javanese (c.)lintang Javanese (a.)tranggono
.--------- sutoro
Malay bintang
2. Bali (o.) bintang
Bali (c.)
Madura (o.) bintang
Madura (c.)
Sunda (c.) bentang
Sunda (c.)
Lampung bintang
3. Biajuk bintang
4. Bugis bintoeng
Macassar bintoeng
5. Timuri fetoen
Rotti du
6. Atui ehetu
7. Samang binting
Madagascar veisir