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The grammar of the Wugi is oxtremel}' simple. Gender 

 and number are expressed by native adjectives ; and relation 

 of nouns by prepositions, differing, however, v.'hoUy from 

 those which act the same part in Malay and Javanese, which 

 is the same thing as the saying of languages of complex 

 structure that their declensions are wholly different. 



The Wugi has native pronouns of the first, second, and 

 third persons ; which last, it may be noticed, are wanting in 

 the Javanese. It has also pronouns expressing plurality. 



Neuter verbs, adjectives, and participles, are formed from 

 roots, which are usually nouns, by the prefix ma, evidently 

 a different thing, in sense and sound, from the transitive pre- 

 fix 7iid of the Malay. The word Iiosi means " i-ain," and ma- 

 hosi, '• to rain." Pud is the noun " white," and maputi, the 

 adjective " white," or the verb " to be white." Transitive 

 verbs are formed by the affix /, according to one of several 

 forms for such verbs in Malay, but not Javanese. Thus, goncm 

 is " a pair of scissors," nud ffonciiii, " to shear or clip." 



An examination of 1777 words of the Wugi vocabulary 

 gives the following results. The number of 1352 are native 

 words ; 109 are Malay ; 16 are Javanese ; and 300 are com- 

 mon to these two languages. The proportion of Malayan 

 words to native, therefore, is less than 24 to 76 in 100, or 

 less than a fourth part of the whole. 



I may add, that in 1810 words, there are in the Wugi 33 

 words of Sanscrit, being the same that are popular in the 

 Malay and Javanese, and not improbably introduced through 

 them. 



From this account it will be seen, that the Malayan words 

 in the Bugis language form something like a similar propor- 

 tion to the native portion of it that the French does to the 

 Anglo-Saxon in our own language ; and it may safely be 

 added, that it is not more essential to its structure. 



The great alterations generally effected in the form of Ma- 

 layan words introduced into the Wugi, seem to me plainly to 

 attest their foreign origin. We find in them, changes by per- 

 mutation, both of vowels and consonants, changes by addition 

 of vowels, and changes by elision of consonants. I shall only 

 give two or three examples. Kayu, wood, is in Wugi con- 



