386 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



the English, have received Malay names. (The 

 goat, Gaming, Malay, Kambhig.) 



A Vocabulario de la Lengiia Mariana, in the 

 form of the vocabularies which we have of the 

 languages of the Philippines, particularly of the 

 Vocabulario Tagalog. by Fr. Domingo de los 

 Santos, proceeding from tlie Jesuits, is still at 

 Agana ; an arte seems to be wanting. This MS. 

 is decaying unused, as the Spanish language 

 suffices the present clergy for their office. We 

 have endeavoured to mvestigate the grammatical 

 construction of the Chamori language, and visited 

 the fathers in Manilla, who presided over the mis- 

 sions of Guahon. Several had not learnt the lan- 

 guage properly, and an old man was unable to 

 give any account of it. The names of places in 

 the Marianas, as in the Philippines, mostly end in 

 071, a particle which, in the languages of the Phi- 

 lippines, marks the relation of place, and requires 

 the third passive, and we find other signs of 

 analogy, all of which are wanting in the dialects of 

 the Carolina islands. Don Luis de Torres assured 

 us, that in the Mariana and Ulea languages there is 

 no declension. We must observe, that the words 

 of the Mariana language, which we communicate 

 for comparison, are not taken from the Vocabu- 

 lario, for which we had no time, but written after 

 our own orthography, from tlie pronunciation of 

 Don Luis. 



