Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

404 PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS part iv
numbering about 200 words, the other about 80,
and amounting together (as the lists have a common
element) to a total of about 250 words.
The specifically Kenaboi words common to the
two lists include the important words of relationship,
*' father," sangkat \
"elder brother," moholok \ "younger
"mother,"
hapet\ "child," ckadt\
brother," thk\
"elder sister," tcmai; "younger sister," inojong \
"father-in-law," lahik, lahik\ and also the words for
"ear," cheliah, chc/lok; "gibbon" (monkey), Jeun,
jhigon} but hardly anything else. But as their
divergences are due in most cases to one of them
using a Malay, Sakai, or other identifiable synonym,
these differences are not perhaps a sufficient reason
for refusing to classify the two lists together as allied
dialects.
Assuming, then, that they constitute a unity, we
of
have about 250 Kenaboi words to classify ; and
these I find that nearly half stand quite alone ; at
least, I have not succeeded in tracing a connection
between them and any other language whatever.
Of the remainder, excluding words of Malay
affinity and a few that are related only to languages
outside the Peninsula, a greater percentage appear to
be connected with Sakai than with Jakun, while a
small minority appear to point to Semang. But
Kenaboi is so thoroughly different in its general type
from both Sakai and Semang, of which two groups
we have a large mass of materials available for
comparison, that it cannot possibly be classed with
either of them. On the other hand, the other Jakun
vocabularies are, as already stated, so fragmentary
' Excepting the last one, Uiese words have no certain parallels in the other
dialects.