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tain. These Sanscrit words are popular in tlie languages of 

 the Indian ai'cliipelago, and have every appearance of having 

 been received into the Malagas! through this channel. 



All this TV'ill, I hope, be considered a sufficient refutation 

 of the hypothesis, that the language of Madagascar is of the 

 same stock with the Malay. 



Passing over the languages of Sumatra, Java, Madm-a, 

 Bali, and Borneo, which, in phonetic character and gramma- 

 tical structure, bear much analogy to the Malay and Javanese, 

 I shall take for my next example, the most cultivated, and 

 widely-spoken of the languages of Celebes, that of the Bugis, 

 called by themselves Wugi. This is a written tongue, with 

 a peculiar native character, and differs essentially from the 

 Malay and Javanese. 



I am enabled to render some satisfactory account of the 

 Wugi, from possessing a vocabulary of it in the native charac- 

 ter.'* The vowels of the Wugi are seven in number, a, e, i, o, 

 u, o, ii. According to the author of the vocabulary, the o has 

 the same sound as this letter in the German word Kiining- 

 berg, and the ii. is the u of the French. The d, equivalent to 

 our commonest sound of u, so frequent in the Malay and Ja- 

 vanese, is wanting. The diphthongs are the same as in Ma- 

 lay and Javanese, viz., ai and ait. 



The Wugi consonants are 15 in number, instead of 19, as 

 in Malay and Javanese. They are as follows : b, c, d,g,J, k, 

 I, m, n, n, p, r, s, t, w. It wants the palatal 'd and 't of the Ma- 

 lay and Javanese, with h and y. The nasal h has no repre- 

 sentative as a consonant in the alphabet ; it follows a vowel 

 only, and is marked by a point over the preceding letter. 

 The sharp aspirate h is ranked among the consonants, and 

 may precede or follow a vowel. The letter k, at the end of 

 a word, is used as a soft aspirate ; and with this exception, 

 that of tlie aspirate and the nasal h, every Bugis word must 

 end in a vowel or dijththong. Thus the Malay word nuuvar, 

 a rose, becomes maivara, and rainpas, to plunder, by a double 

 elision, and the substitution of a diphthong for a vowel, rapai. 



* A Vocabulary of the English, Bugis, and Malay Languages, containing 

 about 2000 words. Singapore, 1833. (I5y the Kev. Mr Thomson.) 



