BY SIDNEY H. RAY. 
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hundred and thirty words of this language, it is spoken 
along the Aju and Montalat Rivers, which are both tribu¬ 
taries of the Barito, and along the latter far inland. It 
therefore borders on the Lawangan, and though agreeing 
in its general character with the neighbouring languages 
appears to be distinct. 
7. Maanjan. 
The library of the British and Foreign Bible Society 
contains a translation by E. Denninger of a portion of the 
Book of Genesis in the Sihong language. This name 
appears on the Calw Mission map as a district east of the 
Barito River and north of Mangkatip.* * * § The language 
closely agrees with the Maanjan. 
C. den Hamer gives a vocabulary of Maanjan and states 
rather indefinitely that the language is spoken in East 
Dusun on the left bank of the Barito, and also in a part of 
Amuntai.t Another vocabulary of one hundred and fifty 
words was written for Dr. Meyer, by Herr H. Sundermann, 
for fifteen years a missionary among the Maanjans at 
Beto, in East Dusun. About one-fourth of these agree 
with Hamer, and about another fourth are more or less 
divergent, about half suggest a difference of dialect in the 
two lists. This is possible, as Hamer gives no precise 
locality, and according to the Encyc. Ned. Ind. Maanjan is 
also spoken on the banks of the Karau and Patei, tribu¬ 
taries of the Barito in East Dusun. 
A number of books have been translated into this 
language by missionaries of the Rhenish Missionary 
Society.]; 
8. Ngadju. 
The largest collection of words in any Borneo language 
is contained in the Dajack-German Dictionary of A. Harde- 
land,§ who, in his grammar of the same language^ calls 
the tribes using it the. Olo Ngadju, “ inland people ” or 
“uplanders ” (olo people, ngadju, upland). The language 
has also been called Ngaju, Biadju, Bedaju, Bijadju, 
Biadjuk, and Biajos. 
The Olo Ngadju comprise the Mangkatip and Dusson, 
* ‘Kleiner Missions-Atlas von R. Grundemann.’ Calw and Stufctgardt, 
1886. 
f Tijdsch. Ind. Taal, 1889. 
I Gf. Bibliography, Nos. 191, 223, 237. 
§ ‘ Dajacksch-Deutsches Worterbuch,’ 1859. 
IT ‘ Versuch einer Grammatik,’ 1858. 
