ENGLISH, SULU, AND MALAY VOCABULARY. 
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eR Tuomas Henry Haynes has communicated to 
(E ' the society, through Mr. Norn Trorter, a vocabula- 
ewsee! ry of the language spoken in the Sulu Islands. ‘This 
3 bees en, is printed verbatim 1 in the first and second columns 
fox oat of the following pages. In the hope of adding to the 
i interest of this paper, from the philological point of 
view, | have appended a third column, in which the Malay 
origin of certain words which have escaped the author’s notice 
is pointed out, and references are given to the equivalents, in 
other languages of the archipelago, of certain widely- spread 
words. The “latter are given on the authority of Favrn’s 
Malay Dictionary (Malais- Francais). Dr. Montano, who 
visited Sulu between 1879 and 1881 gives a short account of 
the language *:— 
«The Sulu language is only a variety of the Bisaya ; the pro- 
nunciation and the greater part of the roots are the same; it 
includes, however, a larger number of strictly Malay words. 
The Reverend Father Freprertco Vira has been kind enough 
to shew me a manuscript grammar and vocabulary drawn up 
by the Reverend Father Bartiu6 during his residence in Sulu. 
Ii is from this source that I borrow the foll owing details :— 
“There is no special article in Sulu (as there is in the Ta- 
gal group of languages) for proper names. Jn (equivalent to 
ang in Bisaya) is employed both with proper names and with 
substantives ; Nom., im: Gen. sina or ni; Dat., Acec., Ablat., in 
or sa. 
“The plural is denoted by the particle mha; in kuda, the 
horse ; in mha kuda, the horses. 
* Rapport 4 M. le Ministre de l’Instruction publique sur une Mission aux 
fles Philippines et en Malaisie. Paris, 1885. 
