Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

448 RELATION TO OTHER LANGUAGES PART IV
Ordinary Mon-Annam Words.
But not merely is there this close correspondence
in structure : there is a very large common element
in the vocabulary itself. The number of words in
Sakai and Semang which can be traced in the Mon-
Annam languages (and in some cases also in Nico-
barese, Khasi, and Munda) is very considerable, and
includes many of the most important words of every-
day life. It would be impracticable to set them out
I have illustrated this connection,
here at length ; and
as fully as circumstances permitted, in the Comparative
Vocabulary. But the following list of the names
of the principal parts of the body will serve as a
specimen of the extent to which this common element
runs through the ordinary speech of these tribes :