IIS THE EVOLUTION OF MALAY SPELLING. 



In this paper but little more has been done than to explain 

 the rationale of this modern Malay spelling, and to reduce it to 

 a system which would enable those who are prepared to adopt 

 it to spell uniformly and consistently with themselves. It has 

 been sought to adhere as closely as possible to the spelling em- 

 ployed by the best educated Malays at the present time in 

 writing their own language, in the firm belief that it is very 

 much more feasible for the few Europeans who use the Malay, 

 character to accommodate themselves to the native way of 

 spelling, than for them to attempt to coerce a whole nation of 

 intelligent and self-reliant men into a return to the antiquated 

 Arabian system of orthography illustrated in the manuscripts 

 of the 17th century, which the Malays have been doing their 

 best to improve for hundreds of years past. 



APPENDIX A. 



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