86 THE EVOLUTION OF MALAY SPELLING. 



and Del. 5. 37 of the Cambridge collection, which is in the same 

 hand-writing, has sa-blas tebus 



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but also balnea clergan lebeh telah without the tashdid. 



The only other Cambridge MS. in which I have found the 

 tashdid used in this way is LI. 6. 5, which has -£j once, and 



In the Oxford MSS. marked A. B. and C. in my paper, 

 in No. 31 of this Journal, we find the following words : 



bri Mum Chelarg Deli dergar dergan glar kapal kapitan 

 Icati kekarg keji megat memegarg memeli melt negri netiasa 

 pesan petrana Rekan suka suka-chita Samudara sudah seni telok 



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But these MSS. have also some of these very words, and 

 several others of the same kind, spelt without the tashdid. 

 Dergan has the tashdid only once, in B. Bafnva, which almost 

 always has tashdid in the Cambridge MSS., never has it in the 

 Oxford MSS. Dergar is spelt without tashdid in A. 



The Oxford MS. of ; ' Ilikagat Sri Rama" has the following 



bias besar betid gennp kechil selang sa-tclah sudah 

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