A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language : with a preliminary ...

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to express the aspirate after a vowel, and others for the nasals
n and ng closing a syllable. It has the Hindu classification
like the Rejang, thus .-— k, g, ng,— p, h, m,—t, d, n—ch, j,
il,— y, a, 1, r, s, w,— h, gr. It will be noticed that the vowel a
and the sibilant are here mixed up with the liquids. The
native alphabet is as follows :
—
SUBSTANTIVE LETTERS.
VOWEL MARKS APPLIED TO THE LETTER K.
ki ku ko
OTHER ORTHOGRAPHIC MARKS APPLIED TO THE LETTER K.
kali kai
-y^yy -7^/
kar kau kang king
-^ ^ ^ s^
kung kan
^ ^
We possess two lists of words of the Lampung, one in the
appendix to Sir Stamford Raffles' History of Java, of 1730
words, and another in the Tijdschrift van Nederland's India of
1800. Both are valuable, and I take the last for analysis, as
the most recent and somewhat the fullest. In 1000 words it
contains 194- Malay, 84 Javanese, 277 common to these two
languages, 41 Sanskrit, and 18 Arabic words. The remaining
words, with the exception of a very small number which are
traced to the Sunda, Madurese, and Bali, must be presumed
to be native, and they amount to about two-thirds of the
whole.
The grammar of the Lampung appears to be nearly the
same as that of the Malay or Javanese. The relations of the
nouns are expressed by prepositions, except for the possessive
d