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AFFENDTI. 



**• ringgit " (the Malay word for dollar) for silver, aad mfts " 

 for gold The Papuan group of languages appear to Iw distin- 

 guiflhed by haisher combinations of lettei's, and by monosyllabic 

 words ending in a consonant, which ara rarely or never found in 

 the Malay group. Some of tba tribes who are decidedly of 

 Malay race, as the people of Ternate, Tidore, and Batchian, speak 

 languages wbich are as decidedly of a Papuan type ; and this» 

 I believe, ariaes from their having originally immigrated to these 

 islands in sra»ll numbers, and by marrying native women acquired 

 a considerable portion of their language, which later arrivals of 

 Malays were obliged to learn and adopt if they gettled in the 

 country. As I have hardly mentioned in my narrative some of 

 the naraea of the tribes whose languages are here given, I will 

 now give a list of them, with such explanatory remarks as I may 

 tiiink useful to the ethnologist, and then leave the vocabularies 

 to speak for theniselvoa* 



LIST OF TOCABUrj\.ElIS COLLECTED 



Tfiost marked * are l&sL 



1. Malay." The common colloquial Malay aa spoken in 

 Singapore ; written in the Arabic character. 



± Javanese. ^ — Low or colloquial Javanese as spoken in 

 Java; written in a native character, 



*3. Sassak. — Spoken by the indigenes of Lombock, who are 

 Mahomntana, and of a pure Malay race. 



Macassaj. — Spoken in the district of Southern Celebes, 

 near Macassar ; written in a native diameter. Mahoraetaua. 



*5. Bugis.— Spoken over a krge part of Southern Celebes ; 

 ivritten in a native character distinct from that of Macsssar. 

 Mahometans. 



6. Bouton. — Spoken in Boutong, a large island eoutb of 

 Celebes. MahomeUina. 



