OF THE INDO-CHINESE NATIONS. Q61 



Kdsi/apa, and Sakijasinha. The language of Lazo is 

 represented as abounding in books, especially transla- 

 tions from the Bali ; and if the antiquity of the 

 nation can be depended on, they must be extremely 

 interesting, from the situation of the country be- 

 tween China and the other Indo-Chinese nations. 

 The Ldiv nation consists, like the Siamese^ of two 

 different races of people, denominated in Siamese, 

 Chong-im'ii and Lan-chaug, which are said by K(emp- 

 FER, to be the names of their chief cities. The first 

 of these are termed, by the Barmas, y//«, and the 

 second, Lain-saiu. De Earros adds a third tribe, 

 which he denominates Clian-cray. In their general 

 appearance the Law resemble the j\I6n. 



XIII. Anam.— The Anam language is that ,of 

 Cochin-China and Tonkin. It is represented by the 

 catholic missionaries to be likewise generally used in 

 Champa and Kau-bang ; but their assertions must 

 be taken with some hmitation when they add, LdiVy 

 Camboja, and Siam. The Anam language, as well as 

 the nation, is often denominated the Juan, by the 

 Malays and Siamese. It has always been more cul- 

 tivated by the catholic missionaries, than any other 

 of the Indo-Chinese languages, though these fathers 

 may, with some degree of propriety, affect the title 

 of " multiplicis idiomatis propa gat ores'" So early as 

 \G5\, the Propaganda Society published at Rome, the 

 '■ Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum,'^ 

 compiled by the Jesuit Alexander de Rhodes, 

 after twelve years residence in Cochin-China and 

 Tonkin, where he had studied under P. Francisco 

 Y)E. Pin A, the first who acquired skill and facility in 

 that language. In composing his dictionary, he had 

 also the advantage of employing the materials col- 



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