⁂ The history of the Hovas is still very obscure, but Mr. Van der Tuuk has sufficiently proved that their language is a peculiar branch of Malayan, showing affinities to Javanese, Batak, Dayak, &c. P. J. V.
Malali.
American: a dialect of Botocudo classed as Camacan, and allied to Maconi. See Vocaby. in Da Silva’s “Dicty.” H. C.
Malay.
(1) High-Malay: typical Polynesian; language of the peninsula of Malacca. See “Grammar and Dicty.” of Crawfurd, London, 1852; by Marsden, London, 1812; by Pynappel, by Hollander, Breda, 1864.
(2) Batavian or Low-Malay. See “Handleiding,” by Homan and Van der Tuuk. Zalt-Bommel, 1868.
⁂ Low-Malay is merely corrupt Malay, as introduced by Europeans. The best vocabulary is by Badings, Dutch-Malay and Malay-Dutch, Schoonhoven, 1872. Batavian-Malay is a dialect of Sundanese, with an admixture of Balinese and other foreign words. P. J. V.
(3) Dialects are known as Amboynese Malay, Menang Kabaw, or Sumatran Malay, Achinese and other Polynesian forms.
⁂ All languages spoken in the Indian or Malay Archipelago [except those of the Galela group], and not directly Papuan, are called “Malay languages,” and considered to belong to the one great Malayan family.
More particularly Malay is the language of a nation spread over a great part of Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and the archipelago of Rhio-Lingga, and which has founded many colonies on the coasts of Borneo and the eastern islands of the Indian Archipelago. Besides the common or so-called cosmopolitan Malay, it is spoken in a peculiar dialect, called the Menangkabau Malay, in the interior of Sumatra.