26 LANGUAGES OF SOUTHERN INDO-CHINA. 



hazardous assertion that Siamese is a Malayan language, an 

 assertion which requires far more cogent evidence to justify 

 it than M. Schlegel has supplied in the article to which I refer. 



It is hardly necessary for me to add that this paper is 

 merely intended to draw the attention of the readers of this 

 Journal to the subject ; so far as the greater part of it is con- 

 cerned, no claim is made for originality, and it is in the main 

 merely a restatement of what has been set forth elsewhere in 

 fuller form by others. My excuse for offering it to the Soci- 

 ety is that some of the readers of this Journal may not have had 

 access to the existing literature on the subject. At the risk of 

 appearing egotistical, I desire to put on record that at the time 

 my former paper was published, I had not heard of Professor 

 Kuhn's admirable essay entitled " Beitrage Zur Sprachen Kunde 

 Ilinterindiens." In it most of my conclusions were antici- 

 pated, and, if I had known of its existence, my paper would 

 not have appeared, without at least some reference to it. 

 The occasion for this personal explanation, which ought per- 

 haps to have been made sooner, is a remark by Dr. Luering in 

 No. 35 of this Journal. 



I append a list of the principal authorities consulted : — 



AymonIEE, Grammaire de la langue Chame ; Les Tchames et 

 leurs Religions (Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, 

 1891); The History of Tchampa (Imperial and Asiatic 

 Quarterly Review, July 1893, and Transactions of the 

 Ninth Congress of Orientalists, London, 1893); Voca- 

 bulaire Cambodgien-Francais ; Dictionnaire Khmer- 

 Franeais ; 



Van LANGEN, Atjehsche Taal (Ilandleiding ; Woordenboek); 



HASWELL, Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan 



Language ; 

 STEVENS, Vocabulary of English and Peguan ; 



KEEN, De Fidjitaal ; Taalkundige gegevens ter bepaling van 

 het Stamland der Mai eisch- Poly nesische Volken (Ver- 

 slagen en Mededeelingen der Koniklijken Akademie van 

 Wetenschappen, Aid. Letterkunde, Amsterdam, 1889). 



MOUKA, Le Royaume du (Jambodge; 



Jour. Straits Branch. 



