NOTES 

 ILLUSTRATING THE CHANGES 



WHICH 



CONSONANTS UNDERGO IN PASSING 



FROM ONE 



MALAYAN DIALECT TO ANOTHER. 



As oue of the principal objects of the Straits Branch of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society is to trace the origin of the various dialects 

 of the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, I have thought that 

 the following notes, though hastily put together, and with very 

 little material to work upon, may prove interesting and give a 

 clue to those who are more capable of following the tangled thread 

 of Malayan etymology to its source than I am. 



I have taken the Malay language as the starting point whenever 

 possible : where three or four examples of a change are given, it 

 must be understood that thirty or forty could as easily have been 

 supplied : but a change exemplified by only one word must be 

 considered doubtful until corroborated, as I hope each one will be, 

 by further contributions from some of the large number of poly- 

 glotts whom the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society counts 

 among its members.* 



A. M. FERGUSON, Jnr. 



* [ See Crawfurd's paper on the Malayan and Polynesian Languages and 

 Races. Journ. Ind. Arch., II., 183. 



