BY SIDNEY H. RAY. 
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Sarawak, I owe some important notes, and also many 
corrections and additional words, especially in Sea Dayak, 
Brunei, and Sarawak Malay. 
My best thanks are due to His Highness the Rajah for 
his kind permission to include this account of the Borneo 
languages in the Publications of the Sarawak Museum. 
I desire to dedicate this work to the memory of Dr. Adolf 
Bernard Meyer, who, with Georg von der Gabelentz, was 
one of the pioneers in the study of the relation between 
Indonesian and Melanesian Languages. 
The whole of this matter is intended to be a record of 
facts only, and I have endeavoured to keep clear of all 
theoretical discussions. The Comparative material is re¬ 
served for future publication. 
THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE BORNEO 
LANGUAGES. 
In the arrangement of the Vocabularies I have followed 
mainly the Geographical Order, so far as it was possible to 
do so without too widely separating languages which 
appear to have some common elements. The large number 
of vocabularies rendered it necessary that they should be 
divided into three sets for convenience of printing. Thus 
the first series illustrates the languages of Lower Sarawak, 
the second shows the languages of Netherlands Territory 
with the Kayan and Kenniah of Central Sarawak, and the 
third illustrates the languages of the tribes in North and 
Central Sarawak and of Brunei and British North Borneo. 
For convenience of reference these geographical notes are 
arranged in the same order. 
I. The Languages of Lower Sarawak. 
1. Milano. 
The Milano* occupy the lower courses of the rivers from 
the Rejang to the Tutong and Balait, i. e., the districts 
about the Blawi, Palo, Bruit and Egan Rivers which form 
the Rejang Delta, and the Oya, Muka, Bintulu and Miri 
Rivers to the north. In Sarawak alone the speakers of 
Milano dialects number at least thirty-five thousand. 
The origin of their name is uncertain. In the old 
language, which is still used by the Mukas and Oyas, the 
people called themselves Lemano, changed by the Malays 
* Also written : Milanau, Milanow, Millanow, Melanau, Malanau. 
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