NOTES ON THE MANGYAN LANGUAGE. 159 



As the main object of the compilation is to show the probable 

 nearer or more remote relation of Mangyan to the other Phil- 

 ippine languages, forms not closely resembling the Mangyan 

 have as a rule been cited only where no nearly identical ones 

 were found. In cases where no English equivalents are given 

 for the cognate words cited, these are synonymous with the 

 Mangyan, cognate terms not synonymous with Mangyan being 

 followed by English explanations. 



In the case of the numerals it has not seemed worth while to 

 collate a mass of material ; they are, therefore, simply tabulated, 

 with a few notes in individual cases.= No numerals were col- 

 lected in the Nauhan dialect. 



LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS CITED,'' ABBREVIATIONS OF THEIR 

 NAMES, AND AUTHORITIES CITED.* 



Ae.-Bat.* Aeta of Bataan. 



Ae.-SF. Aeta of Sta. Fe, Zambales. 



Ae.-Sub. Aeta of Subig, Zambales. 



Reed, W. A., Negritos 

 of Zambales. Puh. 

 Phil. Ethnol, Surv. 

 (1905),2, pt. I. 



' An excellent table of numerals in Philippine languages is given by 

 Scheerer, The Batan Dialect, following p. 88. Pub. P. I. Bur. Sci., Div. 

 Ethnol. (1908), 4, pt. L 



' Besides acknowledging sources from which the word lists are derived, 

 I desire here to express my thanks to Doctor Miller and to Messrs. Scheerer 

 and Beyer for various corrections and suggestions made by them while 

 the manuscript was in preparation. 



* The spelling of the names (except Ibanak and Ifugao) follows the 

 list proposed by Conant [The Names of Philippine Languages, Anthropos, 

 (1909), 4, No. 5, 6], which has been adopted by the division of ethnology 

 of the Bureau of Science. 



"It should be kept in mind that all Aeta (i. e., Negrito) dialects so far 

 observed in the Philippines are of Indonesian origin; that is, the Aeta have 

 everywhere adopted the languages of the tribes that surround them. It 

 is quite probable that they have sometimes preserved antiquated forms 

 and in some cases a tribe of Aeta may even have learned their speech 

 from earlier Malayan invaders than those who now surround them. A 

 modern instance of this was suggested to me by Mr. Scheerer: The Aeta 

 of Zambales speak a corrupt Sambali, but Sambali is being supplanted 

 by Iloko, Pangasinan, and Tagalog (see Reed, op. cit, pp. 27, 28). When 

 Sambali becomes obsolete in the plains, which it almost certainly will 

 long before it does in the hills, the Aeta will be speaking an otherwise lost 

 language. Moreover, it is quite certain that each Philippine language, 

 where adopted by the Aeta, has suffered a considerable number of changes 

 in pronunciation and even of inflection, but it remains essentially Indone- 

 sian. It is not, of course, impossible that original Aeta words may have 

 survived occasionally, for instance in topographical names and names of 

 plants. 



