The treasury of languages

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Non-Aryan dialects of Central India, allied to Gondi and Gayeti. Vocaby. in Hunter’s “Comp. Dicty.” H. C.

Madjar, see [Hungarian].

Madlija.

Javanese: same as Madya.

Madurese.

Javanese: dialect of Madura and of the Madurese colonists in Java, very numerous in the districts east of Surabaya and Kediri. It is mixed up with Balinese, Malay, and other foreign elements, but is written with the Javanese characters; it has two sub-dialects, those of W. Madura and of Sumanap in the E. See Diss. in “Crawfurd’s Malay Grammar.” P. J. V.

Madya.

Javanese term for “middle,” hence “basa-madya” for the middle dialect of Java; it comes intermediate between “basa-krama,” or high, and “basa-ngoko,” or low-speech. P. J. V.

Maer.