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MALAY, ACHINESE, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH VOCABULARY. WITH A CONCISE MALAY... A J W. Bikkers IP DigitizedbyGoogle KM'- MALAY, ACHINESE, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH VOCABULARY. ALPHABETICALLY ABBANGBB UNDEB EACH OF TEE FOUU LANGUAGES, ^xmms. s Concise Ulalajj Bt Dk. a. J. LONDON: W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL. S.W. 1882. (/lU riyht«rMtrvfd.) 3^3 ^ 37s. . . LOKlON: nUITSOL-YW.B.AU<KK4CO.,13V/ATKKLOOP1.ACB. DigitizoabyC3t.)0^lc PREFACE. This book contains Vocabularies of four lan- guages, viz. Malay, Achinese, French, and English; so arranged that each language in turn takes the lead in the alphabetical arrange- ment. It presents a Vocabulary of the dialect of Achin for the first time to the English people. The authority for these Achinese words is Arriens, a well-known Dutch Orien- talist. The relations subsistinii: l)etween the Dutch and the Achinese give the former peculiar facilities for becoming intimately acquainted with the language of their doughty opponents; and, ss these Lists testify, the Dutch have not been slow to avail themselves of their opportunities. The Malay equivalents for all the xVchinese words are given; and from these it will be seen that Achinese is merely a dialect of the widely-diffused Malay language. In order to make the book useful to commercial men and a • C Digiti/oaby PRBFAOl, traders generally, a large number of Malay words are given for which Achinese equiva- lents could not be procured. These are, for the most part, words expressive of common objects, and special articles of trade. For the same reason French renderings have been addedfor the convenience of the large number of people of that enterprizing nation who are engaged in trade in the Malay Archipelago. The Lists are repeated and arranged in alphabetical order in four ways, each language in turn having the precedence, 1st the Malay ; 2nd the Achinese 3rd the French; and 4th ; the English. This enables the book to be used as a reversed Vocabulary for each of the four languages. Anyone conversant with one of the languages can, by this book, instantly find tlie equivalents in the remaining three, so far, at least, as those equivalents are known. A shortGrammar of Malayhas been prefixed to explain the simplegrammatical constructions of that very useful language, in the hope that this will be acceptable to all those who are interested in the Vocabularies themselves. With respect to thearrangementof thewords in the Vocabularies, it need only be remarked ; PEEFAGB Y that many words have been intentionally in- serted more than once under differentspellings for,asitwas notdeemed expedient tointroduce the Arabic character into the book, the entryof words under various methods of transliteration was best calculated to prevent trouble to those who might use the Lists. The symbols used in the book are explained in the first page of the Grammar and to the explanation there given ; it need only here be added that the mark ? indicates that the word to which it is attached has an interrogative meaning; whereas the mark (?), in parentheses, implies some doubt -as to the correctness of the word itself. DigitizoabyC3t.)0^lc EBBATUM. < Pp.26, 111,and203,/or darah inondatiou flood read d&iah sang blood DigitizoabyC3t.)0^lc

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