Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical

by R. G. Latham

4. Hair = moos, Darnley Island; mooche, Massied; maow, Chinese.

5. Country = gaed; Darnley Island; kaha, Ternati.

6. Black = gooli, Darnley Island; houli, Tongataboo.

7. Hand = tag, Darnley Island; tangh, Madagascar; tong, Jooro; tay, Anamitic. A current Malay root.

8. Fish = wapi, Darnley Island; iba, Poggy Isles off Sumatra. Also in other Malay dialects.

9. Flame, fire = bae, Darnley Island; api, Flores, or Ende; fai, Siamese; ffoo, Kong Chinese.

10. Hair = yal, Massied; eeal, Cape York; yal, Port Lihou; houlou, Tongataboo.

11. Teeth = dang, Massied; danga, Cape York; dang, Port Lihou; dang'eta, Gunong-talu of Celebes; wahang, Menadu; rang, Anamitic.

The evidence upon which I rest my belief of the fundamental unity of the three philological groups of the Malay, Papua, and Australian languages, is, of the sort called cumulative; and it is the only evidence that our present data will afford us.