SOME NOTES ON THE SAKAI DIALECTS. 25 



illustrate this peculiarity with sufficient clearness :— 



Cho' = A dog 



Choh = To void 



Chok = To stab 



Chok n = A root, a rattan 



Dol = To place, to set down 



Dul = The handle of a knife 



Eng = I, we 



En = To bring 



Hoi = A small black ape — the siamang of the Malays 



H61 = To arrive 



Ka' = A fish 



Kah = To cut, to gash 



Kol = Pith 



K61 = To fall down 



Ku-i = The head 



Ku-i = Language, speech 

 The colours which have names in the Sakai language are 

 as follows : — 



Re-ngah = Black 



Bi-ug: = White 



Cheng-ul = Red 

 All dark colours are included under " Black ;" green, blue, 

 mauve, &c. under "White;" and crimson, orange, yellow and 

 brown under " Red." 



Hitherto all efforts to connect the Sen-oi dialects with any 

 other tongue have failed, so far as my attempts are concern- 

 ed, but I have now arranged to procure some further vocabu- 

 laries for purposes of comparison, and hope to be able to dis- 

 cover a connection either with the Papuan dialects or with 

 some of the jargons spoken by the Dyaks or other aboriginal 

 tribes of the Malay Archipelago. The statement made by 

 Mr. VAUGHAN STEVENS that the Sakai dialects were closely 

 connected with the language of Thibet is totally incorrect. 

 After a careful comparison of the grammars and vocabularies 

 of the two tongues, I am in a position to state that they have 

 neither a root nor a grammatical form in common. Thibet- 

 an is a polysyllabic language with an elaborate grammar, 



