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

28 A GRAMMAR OF THE
general for the purposes of useful distinction, and although the division
into eight parts, which was found applicable to the Greek and Latin,
and from them has been adopted into the modern languages of Europe,
is not perfectly suited either to these or to the Malayan, I am induced
from a consideration of the advantage that attends the employment of
known and current terms, to conform in great measure to the principles
of this division, instead of attempting a classification entirely new.
Some difficulty arises from a numerous description of words presenting
themselves, which in their primitive or crude state are not confined to
one particular part of speech, but are common to two or more, as JW
jdlan to walk and jalan a road,