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derlog: triLes of the Malay Peninsula 

 :ind the tii1iabitnnt*iof tfie T^lmids iti 

 ttie \ iidhu ArcliipeiagtJ, have their par- 

 cieiilar lan^uagej ftintple iii ils con- 

 stnii^tiiju but diHicutt to prom>urn:e, 

 U is [psn ch^ar niid distinct in exprEt<ts- 

 iiig exact ideas, and the Mantras 

 Ciirisli:uvs hnve been the first to de- 

 mand iU(it the hiitj^ua^c of thtir reli- 

 gious teacliiij^f slitmlr] be -^tahy, as 

 bHnf!: mure eJear and full in expresHing 

 teltjiioiis trutlii^. It, h ther<2fi>re in Ma- 

 lay Wf vin.it them, mid they all \in~ 

 d^rstiiiid it. 



EHch iribe hns a dialect of its oivn, 

 and often so dUTt!rtTJt fnimoiie aiiother, 

 thnt they hawe to empioy Malay lu 

 ■apefikmiif to each other, Tlju;*, a Ja- 

 imou ilots not umlerst^ml a .^iantra^ 

 and the JMjiotrA can with di^IiuulCj 

 comitreheiid a BesiH." 



**The words win eh compose the? Man- 

 tra language may bo tlivitjpd who three 

 elasses— 5?ansctit and Arabic, Mahiy, 

 and MftiitrHiq. The j^an^icrit, wurd^ 

 arir very Frtih different fioui those 

 «iupIoyed in the Malay Uiiguiigc; the 

 Arabic word;* are more ptiarce, as the 

 Mftntrns nut being Mussulmen, have 

 not admitted their Ihentogira), nicta- 

 phyKical,and ceremonial terms. 



The second class is composed of Ma- 

 lay words J whkh have undergone very 

 little alteration. U is difltcult to my 

 from whence the purely Mantras wfiids 

 are derived, nnless \vc supjiose Ihesa 



