A Manual of the Malay language / With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay

by Sir William Edward Maxwell

EIGHTH EDITION.

LONDON:

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER, & CO. L^TD

DRYDEN HOUSE, GERRARD STREET, W.

1907

Je n’en refuis aulcune de phrases qui s’usent emmy les rues;
ceux qui veulent combattre l’usage par la grammaire se mocquent.

Montaigne.

[PREFACE.]

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The language which I have endeavoured to illustrate in the following pages is the Malay of the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca, some knowledge of which I have had the opportunity of acquiring during sixteen years’ service in Penang, Province Wellesley, Malacca, Singapore, and Perak.