Curriculum of a Course in Malay in Paris. 



Hotel du Mont Blanc Les Passes s/ Ste. Croix 



Switzerland, 3/2/08. 

 The Honorary Secretary, 



Straits Branch, Eoyal Asiatic Society, 

 Singapore, Straits Settlements. 

 Dear Sir, 



I am permitted by the Professor of Malay at the Paris 

 School of Oriental Languages to communicate to you the 

 enclosed programme of the curriculum of his department, 

 which I venture to think may be of interest to some of the 

 members of the Society. Should it be desired to print this 

 programme in the Journal for the information of members, I 

 am authorised to add that Professor Cabaton has (at my 

 suggestion) given his consent thereto. 



It is rather remarkable that France, which has very few 

 Malay-speaking subjects, should possess a Professorship of 

 Malay (once filled, it may be remembered, by the Abbe Favre, 

 whose name is still held in honour in the East), whereas 

 England has made no move in this direction. The fact seems 

 hardly creditable to ourselves. 



I am, 



Yours very truly, 

 C. Otto Blagden. 



Ecole des Langues Orientales Cours de Malais 1907-8. 



Premiere annee. Programme du cours: Elements de malais 

 classique (Principes de grammaire: a) Phonetique ou 

 Etude des eons; b) Ecriture: alphabet arabico-malais 

 et ses tranGcriptions en caracteres latins; c) Ety- 

 mologie on Formation des mots; d) Morphologie on 

 Etude des formes grammaticales ; e) Syntaxe). Ex- 

 ercices practiques. 



E. A. Soc, No. 50, 1908, 



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