CHAPTER VIII. 

 SAWAIORI MATERIAL IN INDONESIA. 



Limitation of the points of inquiry — Check-list of the Indonesian 

 material — Synoptical tables of mutation varieties — Mutations com- 

 pared with the systems of the Pacific languages— Character and prob- 

 able place of the contact of Indonesian and Polynesian — The nature of 

 an ethnic swarm discussed — The Malay advance was an affair of 

 outposts — Whence arose the speech community, which after all is a 

 matter of but a gross of words — The Indonesians are shown to be 

 borrowers — Two lines of Sawaiori escape through the Malay Archi- 

 pelago lead to the two tracks identified through Melanesia — The 

 designation Malayo-Polynesian should be discarded because false. 



The scope of this work does not include such a detailed dissection 

 of the Indonesian languages as that to which the Melanesian tongues 

 have been subjected in the foregoing chapter. This speech area 

 has its own diligent students, and to their researches we owe the 

 present advanced state of our knowledge of the multiplicity of 

 Malaysian speech. Thus are we spared the necessity of pathfinding. 



In the present chapter we shall limit our attention to the con- 

 sideration of such Indonesian material as is brought into comparison 

 with the data from the Pacific areas here under discussion. We 

 shall examine it for the purpose of discovering to what extent it 

 may be used either in support or in disproof of the theory that the 

 Pacific languages have developed out of the Indonesian, or that both 

 derive from a common parent. In this we shall develop whatever 

 support such examination may give to the theory that this common 

 parent was Semitic. We shall be led to a rigid consideration of the 

 validity of the older consociation of these speech areas as the 

 Malayo-Polynesian family. 



Beyond these several points of inquiry we shall not advance. We 

 shall do no more than to place these data conveniently at the service 

 of students of Indonesian philology. 



As we have done in the earlier chapters we present a series of 

 tables for readiness of access to the material here assembled. For 

 a large amount of the Indonesian material indebtedness is gratefully 

 acknowledged to the industry and research of Mr. Tregear recorded 

 in his "Maori Comparative Dictionary." 



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