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GRAMMAR
OF THE
MALAY TONGUE,
xVS it is fuppofed that the Reader is already acquainted with the ge-
neral terms of grammar, it was deemed unneceflary to infeit them in the
following eflay ; therefore thofe parts which are in common with other Ian-»-
guages have, for the moft part, been fupprefled.
The Malays have not any proper national character, except that which .
has been introduced by the Mohammedan priefts, who have from time to
time fettled on the peninfula of Malacca and the adjacent iflands ; therefore
it refembles the Arabic Nilhki alphabet, excepting fome flight alteration to
exprcfs a found which the Arabians had no chara