IN THE MALAY PENINSULA. 25 



in which they are to be found. The original spelling is left 

 unaltered in all cases, except that the elaborate diacritical vowel 

 marks of the French transliteration of Khmer and the tonal 

 marks of Annamese have not been reproduced ; to have done so 

 would have involved much additional trouble and would have 

 served no useful purpose in the present paper. 



The authorities in question are, for 

 /. — Aboriginal dialects of the Malay Peninsula. 



(a) Orang Utan of Johor, Ulu Endau, Ulu Rumpin; 

 Aborigines of Ulu Kelantan and Ulu Fatani — Miklucho- 

 Maclay, Straits Asiatic Journal, No. 1, pp. 41-44. 



(b) Orang Benua, Kedah Semang and Jooroo* Semang. 

 Newbold, British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca, 

 vol. ii. p. 422 seqq. 



(c) Semang — Begbie, The Malayan Peninsula, pp. 14-18. 

 ( No locality is given ; and it seems doubtful whether 

 this may not be a Sakai dialect). 



(d) Senoi, Tembe, Blanja and Slim Sakai. — Clifford, Straits 

 Asiatic Journal, No. 24, pp. 13-29. 



(e) A few words of Kedah Semang from Crawf urd, Ma- 

 lay Grammar; of "Benua" and "Pantang Kapur" from 

 Logan's articles in the Journal of the Indian Archipel- 

 ago and the Straits Asiatic Journal, Nos. 3 and 9 ; and 

 a word here and there from other sources as indicated 

 in the notes when they occur. 



ff) For the rest, the vocabularies in the Straits Asiatic 

 Journal, No. 5, p. 129 seqq. 

 //. — Languages and dialects of Indo- China. — 

 1. Civilized. 



(a) Mon^ — Haswell, Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary 

 of the Peguan Language. 



(b) Khmer'' — Moura, Vocabulaire Cambodgien. 



5. I.e. — Juru, near Province Wellesley. 



6. Reference has also been made to ISpecimens of the Languages of 

 India (v. note. 2) and Hodgson's Essays on Indian subjects, vol. ii. pp. 45- 

 50 ; and I would here express my indebtedness to my friend Mr. H. L. Eales, 

 B.C.S., lately Superintendent of Census Operations in Burma and now 

 Deputy- Commissioner, Magwe, for nmch valuable assistance in connection 

 with this language. 



7. Reference has also been made to Aymonier. Dictionnaire Khmer, 

 rran9ais. 



