COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY 



OF THE 



Dialects of some of the Wild Tribes inhabiting 



the Malayan Peninsula, Borneo, &c. 



COLLECTED AND COMPILED FOR 

 THE STRAITS BRANCH 



or THE 



Royal Asiatic Society. 



One of the professed objects of the Straits Branch of the 

 Eoyal Asiatic Society was the collection of a number of test words 

 from the languages of the Wild Tribes who inhabit the Peninsula,, 

 and the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, with a view to assist 

 ethnological science in the solution of those most interesting pro- 

 blems — the origin of these peoples, their connection with each 

 other and with Malays, Papuans, the Savages of Formosa, the 

 Bataks of Sumatra, the Cannibals of Turk's Island, and others ot 

 the Caroline Group, and many other apparently distinct races in 

 whose languages a similarity of words has led to a belief that they 

 had one common origin. 



With this object a series of one hundred words was chosen 

 and printed in form of a pamphlet with the German, Trench, 

 Dutch, and Spanish equivalents of each word, and a blank column 

 for the new dialect, to be supplied by the collector. 



