ini -more correct Kâwi than on Java ; and it*is tb th é copies obtained from?
thence»-that Reference will.be «principally made in the*observations,which?
follow on Javan litejattire;
Iii'noticing )‘.the accessary tongues from whence the Malayan acquired
“ . such a degree iof improvement, as remoVe&*it'from thé^g^ieral'level of
“ the other cognate .dialects, and gave it a decided predominance in that
“ part of the east,” Mr. Marsden observes, “ that ‘the .earliest; as..well as
“ most important of thèse, appears to haV^ been/ either^directly or me-
^-'diately, that tfgreat parent of Indian lahguage‘sp*€hfe Sanscrit;■ 'whose
“ influence is^fôund to'have pervaded the, whole of the ' eastern - (and
“ perhaps also of the western) .world, modifying and regenerating^even
“ where it Aid not create. That the intercourse, whatever, its-jciycum-
“. stances may have heen, which produced thj§ adyantageous -effeeij^must
“ have taken place at an early period,1 is to.be inferred, not only'from the
v , deep obscurity ? in which . it is involved, h^t al'sojfrom the nature of the
“ terras borrowed, being subh as the progress of Civilization must’.soqn have.
« rendered necessary, expressing the feelings of the mind, thoifttost obvious
“■ moral ideas, the simplest objects of the understanding, and .ifiose ôrdi-
“ -nary modes o£ thought which result from the social habits of mankind“;
‘-‘ whilst, at the. same time, it is not to be understood, as some have pre-.
“ sumed to be the case, that the affinity between the&e languages is radical,
“ -or that the latter is indebted to any Hindu.dialect for;its names-fbr the
“ common objects of sense.*’*
The same observations apply still more extensively to the Jâvan.$ and in
the Kâwi dr classic language, we may presume to have discovered the channel
by which the Javan received its principal 'store, of ^Sanscrit words,-kfor. it
is the practice, even at present, among the bétter educated of the Javans,
for the party to display his reading, by the introduction, particularly into
epistolary correspondence and literary compositions, of Kâwi words, by
which means the colloquial, but more particularly the written language of
the country, is .dâily. receiving-fresh accessions of Sanscrit terms. From the
vocabularies now presented to the public, and the account which will be
given of their literary compositions, it will appear, that few languages, even
on the continent of India,« have been more indebted to the Sanscrit than
the Javan. One original language seems, in a very remote period, to have
pervaded the whole Archipelago, and to have spread (perhaps with the
population)
Marsden’g Malayan Grammar.