A grammar of the Malayan language, with an introduction and praxis..

MALAYAN LANGUAGE. 41
of seventy; for ninety-nine, ^\j^ ^\ 'tjf korang asa sa-raliis wanting
one of an hundred, or, an hundred less one.
It maybe observed, that a contraction of the numeral of unity becomes
the indefinite article, as culLo sa-kata a word, or, one word, %jj.^ s'orang
a man, or, one man. The same takes place in most other languages.
The ordinal numbers are as follows : f,\3l pertdma (for the Sanskrit
prafaina), or ^[;J '^. ta?ig pertdma the fust, imprimis ; ^j^ ha-dua the
ku-
,^ ka-dm-blas the
ft _ *
second ; CS-^ ka-ttga the third ; e:,,^^ ha-ampat the fourth ; ^
lima the fiftli ; ^^U
ka-sa-prduli the tenth ; ^^
twelfth; ,j aJy CJ-^ ka-tlga pulu/i dna the thirty- second ; ^^\j j^s~^ kU'
tujuli rdtus the seven hundredth.
Fractions of numbers, which have already been noticed in speaking of
derivative nouns, are thus expressed : iSc^ ia-langak an half ; cljil^
sa-per-tiga a third ; i.::_Xo'jA»j sa-per-arnpat a fourth ; ^J^. sa-per-lTma a
fifth ; l1$;j,S jJ diia per tlga two-thirds ; t::.^'^ CS^ I'ga per-ampat
three-fourths ; ^j
c:.-i*1 ampat per-tima four-fifths ; jj iki tangah dila
one and an half, as before explained. Of multiples and divisionals
examples are as follows : ^tt CS^ tlga lapis three fold, triple, triplex ;
jo^ cli-J' figa ganda three-fold, treble, triplus ; ^^J *J Ihiia lapis five-fold,
quincuplex ; ^ J^ lima ganda five-fold, quintupiex ; jU- ui^