10 LANGUAGES OF SOUTHEltN IN DO -CHIN A. 



Cham. Cancho. Rode. Cherai. Selung. 



Plantain : patei. pote/j. umtoi. phumpetey. 



(Selling has pedant/, the Malay pisang.) With these 



forms compare the Dusun puntie, Tagbenua punti, Bulud 



Opie patch, Kian ( ? Kayan) Dayak puteh (all of Borneo), 



bumbawa punti, Mangkasar unti, Malagasy untsi, Fijian 



vudi: not found in Malay, Javanese or (I believe) 



Achinese ; but it is the old original Malayo-Polynesian 



word. Pimm is the Malay pohun, "tree," Cham j9Amn. 



TV , , , , , ( pallah. 



Rice : bran. urea. brat, pras. < r , 



Malay beras ; I find in a Bugis vocabulary printed in the 

 Arabic character at Singapore, bard': Achinese beres 

 (apparently pronounced broeh, final -s in Achinese being 

 as a rule pronounced -h as in.Minangkabau Malay, where 

 the word is bareh ; in the Naning (Malacca) pronuncia- 

 tion, boreh). This word is a good instance of the rule 

 (first formulated by the late Dr. H. N. Van der Tuuk in 

 his " Outlines of a Grammar of the Malagasy Language," 

 18(35) that "when the Malay and Batak equivalent 

 word has r and the Tagal or Bisaya has g, both the 

 Kawi and Javanese have no consonant." * The Batak 

 form here is boras Tagalog bigds, Bisaya bot/as, Kawi 

 wwas, which last contracts to Javanese wos, while Bali- 

 nese has baas. It will be noticed that Cham and its 

 neighbours here agree most closely with the Sumatran 

 and South Celebes type and differ entirely from the 

 Javan and Philippine. Selung rather stands alone, as in 

 many other words. But Selung -I- corresponds in some 

 other cases to Malay -r- e.g. mata-aloi (== matahari), 

 " sun ; " yahloam {== jarum) " needle." 

 Rice (in husk) is in Cham padai: Malay padi, i\chinese pade, 

 Javanese pari, Batak page, Bisaya paiat. Here again, 

 Cham agrees, as regards consonants, with Malay and 

 Achinese, but it differs here from Batak as well as 

 from the others, f 



; This is often called " Van der Tuuk's first rule.'" 

 I These consonantal changes are regular and exemplify Van der 

 Tuuk's second rule ; see below, s. v. "nose. ;: 



Jour. Straits Branch, 



