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Malayu language is spoken in its greatest purity in 

 the states of Kiddeh or Tanna Say, Ferak, Salangor, 

 Killung, Johor, Tringgano, Pahang, and as far as 

 Patani, where it meets the Siatnese. Among the 

 western Malays in general, it is spoken with more 

 purity than among the more easterly isles, but on 

 the coast of Sumati^a, or Puloiv Purichu, it is inter- 

 mixed with the Batta and other original languages. 

 The Menaugkabow race, m ho seem at an early period 

 to have ruled the whole island of Siwiatra, whose 

 chief assumes the name of ^Iaha' Raja' of Ra-ja's, 

 and deri . ts his origin from Laiikapiini, speak a dialect 

 of Alakwu, which (htfers considerably from that of 

 the peninsula ; but which seems, as far as I can 

 judge, to coincide in many respects with the Jaiva 

 or Javanese language. The race have probably de- 

 rived their origin from Lankapura in Java. The 

 Malayu dialects of Riyozv and Linga seem to be 

 mixed with Javanese, as are those of the Malay 

 states on the island of Java. The dialect of Pitntiana 

 and Sambas, is purer than that of Borneo or of 

 Banjar ; but that of Passir, on the east coast of 

 Borneo, is greatly mixed with the original language 

 of Celebes, or the Bug is. The Malays of Celebes 

 speak a dialect greatly mixed with Biig'is, while 

 those of the Moluccas and the more eastern isles 

 have adopted such a multitude of foreign words, 

 that their dialect sometimes seems to be quite a 

 different language. The simplicity of structure 

 which the Malayu language possesses, in common 

 with those of the monosyllabic class, greatly facili- 

 tates this adoption of foreign terms ; and the practice 

 is so prevalent in the more easterly isles, that the 

 term Basa Timor, or the eastern language, is currently 

 applied to every kind of jargon. 



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