THE LANGUAGES OP THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 229 
3 Weak aspirates: bambu, lulu Mai. burn Born ; moon, 
bulan Mai. buratn Pont bulang Mangk. ivurah Bima; two, lua 
Bima [Hawaii &e.J rui Bat ; musquito, niamo Mai. ramo 
Rotum; paddy, pani Banj pari Jav. Biaj &c.; water ayer 
Mai aeng Mad. Sim; five, lima Mai. rim a, Elide [New Z] 
niirw Timor; diamond, intan Mai. intang Bug; parrot, nuri 
Mai. muri Pont; ear, telinga Mai. tayinga Tag; night, 
malam Mai. malang Banj. 
C. Interchanges of surds differing both in their organic 
and aspirate class . 
Foot, kali Mai. has a Kay . siki Sulu; cat Icuching M al. 
kuting Sulu. 
D. Sonants differing both in their organic and aspirate 
class : 
Well, talaga Mai. Way a Sas;_ teeth, nipun Meri, Mil. Kay. 
’B&t.jipun Sau. jupeutn Pont.; rain, ujan Mai. udan Jav. udang 
Bat; cold, siju Mai. sidek Sim Mad; road, jalan Mai dalan 
Bisayan; tongue, lida Mai. dilu Sibn,ji/'J Meri. Kay; eaith 
butah Mangk. huta G. T.; goat, bfbe Bug. be hi Rot.; land, i- 
nua Mai. hanua Rot; moon, bulan Mai. huhnRoi; yam, ubi 
Mai. uhi Rot; day, hari Mai navi Bat.; rice, bras Mai. narese 
Mot ; teeth, qigi Mai. nini Wok.; three, tiga Mai. telu Bug . 
&c. ; egg tiqan Jav. tolon Tina, tilor Mai.; blood, dara Mai. 
daha Kay. duhu G. T. raha Ende; below, bawa UfA..jawa 
Sang. 
E. Surds'into sonants differing both in their organic and 
aspirate classes. 
There are more instances of this exceptional class in the 
Malayo-polynesian languages than in the Indo-european. But 
these exceptions are chiefly interchanges with such of the 
weak aspirates as, from their liquid nature, are eminently 
congenial to the vocalic taste of the islanders. The r, tor 
instance, which in the Indo-european group appears only 
to make one excursion out of the class of weak aspirates, in 
the Malayan* languages invades both the bordering classes ci 
* If the word Malay be confined to tbe Malays and their language, and the 
word Malayan be exclusively used as a generic terra for all the races and languages 
of what the French call Malaisie, we may dispense with the indefinite word 
Archipelagic. To apply the word Malay, as eminent European writers often 
do, J Javanese, Bugis, Battas, and all the other races of the Archipelago, is 
the same error which a Malay author would commi^who confounded Portu- 
guese, Spanish, and Italians, under the name of French, 
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