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...It was the intention of the author of this volume to make some extended remarks concerning the character, peculiarities and extent of the hawaiian language, by way of preface or introduction; but the want of physical strength, and especially of mental energy, has induced him to forego such an attempt and be contented with a mere history of the manner in which this dicti...

...Hawaiian is but a dialect of the great Polynesian language, which is spoken with extraordinary uniformity over all the numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Hawaii. Again, the Polynesian language is but one member of that wide-spread family of langu...

...a 143 Liechtenstein 144 Luxembourg 146 M Macau 147 Madagascar 148 Malawi 150 Malaysia 151 Maldives 153 Mali 154 Malta 155 Man. Isle of 157 Martinique ... ...n, Baluch, and others Religion: 74% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (pr... ... (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (primarily Baluchi and Pashai); much bilingualism Life expectan... ... religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Infant mortality r... ...opean Religion: 99% Sunni Muslim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and Jewish Language: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Infant mortality rat... ...2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Delaware Land boundary: 381 km with Malaysia Coastline: 161 km Maritime claims: Exclusive fishing zone: 200 n... ...territo- rial claim in complex dispute over Spratly Islands involving China, Malaysia, Philip- pines, Taiwan, and Vietnam Climate: tropical; hot, humi... ...ina Sea linking Indian and Pacific Oceans; two parts physically separated by Malaysia; almost an enclave of Malaysia Population: 249,961 (July 1987), ... ...7% Nationality: noun Bruneian(s); adjec- tive Bruneian Ethnic divisions: 64% Malay, 20% Chi- nese, 16% other Religion: 60% Muslim (official); 8% Chris...

...most advanced countries of the world to the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsula, tooled its philosophy from its successful island neighbor... ...gapore’ was a highly effective leader. After Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965, the British educated leader led a population of Chinese, ... ... “On the home front, for years we have had robots that understand simple language. Now we are working on robots deciphering non-verbal language, li... ... have to provide more jobs for more people. When Singapore separated from Malaysia in 1965 it became more aggressive in population control. It set up... ...e were never ethnically pure. Like Singapore we were Chinese, Indians and Malays. We have always had our fair share of Europeans and Americans. As ou... ...th English and Chinese. We send them the materials they need to learn the languages. They are also tested on their knowledge of our customs, history ... ...ve special talents, particularly in mathematics, music, the arts, sports, language facility. This helps the parents to help and encourage the child ... ... are not all that much lower in most Western countries. “In nearby Malaysia we are seeing some equality creeping into Islam. The rise of femal... ... is delivered over the internet. Educational games teach them our English language along with Chinese, math and science, history and the other neces...

...us city and there questioned by the King. But being unable to understand their language, the ruler sent for many interpreters from whom one was at len... ...any interpreters from whom one was at length obtained who understood the Latin language, which it happened that one of the fishermen too could speak. ... ...iod of five years, during which time they acquired a thorough knowledge of the language of the new people. One of the fishermen visited different part... ... where the young Venetian speedily acquired a knowledge of four of the leading languages of Tartary, and thus fitted himself for active service under ... ...fit of his countrymen. The narrative was written by Rusticiano in the Venetian language, but it was first printed in the Latin, from which it was dire... ...island of Japan, Marco Polo started on a voyage to the Chinese Sea, around the Malay Archipelago, and thence to India, having been the first European ... ... Saracens, drawn thither by promises of a lucrative trade with the neighboring Malays of the Continent. He saw numerous cities, but of what size or co... ... indebted for nearly all the information that we possess of the islands of the Malay Archipelago. AMONG THE NEW GUINEANS. On the 2nd of April, Tasman ...

...is table not far from a little green painted door, by which always stood a Malay in a red sash and turban, and whose hand, holding a small string dang... ... spirits who, fitting out schooners on the Australian coast, in- vaded the Malay Archipelago in search of money and adven- ture. Bold, reckless, keen ... ...ere seamen; the acknowledged king of them all was Tom Lingard, he whom the Malays, honest or dishonest, quiet fishermen or desperate cut-throats, reco... ...ndour. As to the other side of the picture—the companionship for life of a Malay girl, that legacy of a boatful of pirates—there was only within him a... ...where, any- where, out of his gorgeous future. Easy enough to dispose of a Malay woman, a slave, after all, to his Eastern mind, convent or no convent... ...n, concealing her hate and contempt for all that new life. She learned the language very easily, yet understood but little of the new faith the good s... ... heat, they filled the little bungalow with the unusual sounds of European languages, with noise and laughter produced by naval witticisms at the expe... ...intendence, did that astute negotiator carry on long conversations in Sulu language with Almayer’s wife. What the subject of their discourses was migh... ... took Nina by the arm and led her towards her father. “Speak to him in the language of his people,” he said. “He is grieving—as who would not grieve a...

...aim fellowship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth) Humbly to express A penitential loneliness. It ... ...ncey thirteen I wrote Greek with ease; and at fifteen my com- mand of that language was so great that I not only com- posed Greek verses in lyric metr... ...s no swindler, would also (I hoped) compel the bishop to reply in the same language; in which case I doubted not to make it appear that if I was not s... ...mity and self-possession proportion- ably difficult. So true it is, in the language of a wise man whose own experience had made him acquainted with bo... ...eams, which it influenced more fearfully than could be imagined. One day a Malay knocked at my door. What business a Malay could have to transact amon... ... his attainments in English were exactly of the same extent as hers in the Malay, there seemed to be an impassable gulf fixed between all com- municat... ... and looking more like a rustic hall of entrance than a kitchen, stood the Malay— his turban and loose trousers of dingy white relieved upon the dark ... ...inde- pendent attitude, contrasted with the sallow and bilious skin of the Malay, enamelled or veneered with mahogany by ma- rine air, his small, fier... ...ish Opium-Eater tures and adorations. Half-hidden by the ferocious-looking Malay was a little child from a neighbouring cottage who had crept in after...

...s on the shores of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centu- ries the scene of adventurous underta... ...ke a spear poised high in the hand of an enemy. Right aft by the wheel the Malay quartermaster stood with his bare, brown feet firmly planted on the w... ...u’ve been sleeping—you. Shift the helm. She has got stern way on her.” The Malay, without the least flinch of feature or pose, as if he had been an in... ...nd for that matter to hear, nothing. The white man looked at the impassive Malay with disgust, then glanced around the horizon—then again at the helms... ...Don’t you feel the air from aft? You are like a dummy standing there.” The Malay revolved the spokes again with disdain- ful obedience, and the red-fa... ...is English was difficult to understand, but he could sing songs in his own language about ah-moor—Ah-moor means love, in French—Shaw.” “So it does, si... ...ber things that would make your hair stand on end—but I have forgotten the language of my own country. I’ve traded, I’ve fought, I never broke my word... ...uch you cannot make myself understood as well as they. And yet I speak the language of your child- hood, the language of the man for whom there is no ... ...o at- tract in some way or other Lingard’s attention to the lagoon. In the language of the sea a single rocket is properly a signal of distress, but, ...

... the word to steady the helm. It was the Serang, an elderly, alert, little Malay, with a very dark skin, who murmured the order to the helmsman. And t... ...e Eastern waters, a screed traced in obso- lete words—in a half-for-gotten language. IV REVOLVING THESE THOUGHTS, he strolled on near the rail- ings o... ...ed creek with granite shores. Moored between the square blocks a sea-going Malay prau floated half hidden under the arch of masonry, with her spars lo... ...ves—she too had her indispensable man. They lived through each other, this Malay he had never seen, and this high-sterned thing of no size that seemed... ...y were gathering low be- tween the deep stonefaced banks of the canal. The Malay prau, half-concealed under the arch of the bridge, had not altered it... ...ofala approaching the bar of Batu Beru. “No, Tuan. By-and-by see.” The old Malay, in a blue dungaree suit, planted on his bony dark feet under the bri... ...g Malay uplifted and long-drawn declared the depth of the water in his own language. “Tiga stengah,” he cried after each splash and pause, gathering t...

...wrote and marks, in a manner of speak- ing, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceive... ...ffort in short-story writing was a depar- ture—I mean a departure from the Malay Archi- pelago. Without premeditation, without sorrow, without rejoici... ... a silent old fellow in a richly embroidered black jacket alone of all the Malays around did not follow the masterful gesture with a look. He did not ... ...slapping him on the back, for there are liberties one must not take with a Malay. He said himself that on such occasions he was only a private gentlem... ...the cabin floor. We could hear Jackson, who had gone out to drive away our Malay seamen from the doorway of the companion; he swore menacingly in the ... ... been distracted by the visitation of God; but some did not understand our language, and some cursed us, or, yawning, asked with contempt the reason o... ...l, and in the silence of foreign countries she spoke to me very low in the language of my people. No one saw her; no one heard her; she was mine only!... ...scussed what it was pleased to call “Our Colonial Expansion” in high-flown language. It spoke much of the rights and duties of civilization, of the sa... ...bling the speech of civilized men. It sounded like one of those impossible languages which sometimes we hear in our dreams. “What lingo is that?” said...

...r profit as for the plea- sure of finding them—he soon became known to the Malays, and by his successful recklessness in sev- eral encounters with pir... ...ad for his weaknesses, could easily see that it was enough to give him his Malay title to flatter him greatly. So when there was anything to be gained... ...ly into the stern sheets and took up the yoke lines. “Give way there.” The Malay boat crew lay back together, and the gig sprang away from the quay he... ...nd rushed past him with a frightened snarl. He was now in the midst of the Malay quarter whose bamboo houses, hidden in the verdure of their little ga... ... the hardest obstacles. Lakamba listened, silent but interested. They were Malay adventurers; ambitious men of that place and time; the Bohemians of t... ...mud of the river. At first he an- swered my talk with bad words of his own language, after the manner of white men. Afterwards, when lis- tening to th... ...bove the singer’s head a confused beating of wings, sleepy remarks in bird-language, a sharp stir of leaves. The forms by the fire moved; the shadow o... ... your doing. You …” She did not understand him—not a word. He spoke in the language of his people—of his people that know no mercy and no shame. And h... ...ill do. There will come here in about ten minutes a Bugis man—you know the language; you are from Macassar. He has a large canoe; he can take you ther...

...there on a large stone found the sandals, Renouard’s white jacket, and the Malay sarong of chequered pattern which the planter of Malata was well know... ...he island of Cuba on his two legs, and with no more than four words of the language to begin with. The officer and the man were walking now on a thick... ... him menacingly. The evening found him fairly near to them, but, in sailor language, uncertain of his position, hungry, wet, and tired out by a day of... ...ttle one which we used to chaff him about. He ran her alone, with only the Malay serang for a deck officer. The nearest approach to another white man ... ...stagnation. “All the population was on the river-bank staring silently, as Malays will do, at the Sissie anchored in the stream. She was almost as won... ...ou couldn’t find on a map, and more squalid than the most poverty-stricken Malay settlement had a right to be, this European woman com- ing swishing o... ...you would think a very bilious white man. And I daresay he was. He owned a Malay prau and called himself The Nakhoda, as one would say: The Captain. A... .... Aha! Now you remember. He couldn’t, apparently, speak any other European language than English, but he flew the Dutch flag on his prau. “The other w...

... which rested on the blanket of my bed-place. They referred to a sunset in Malayan Isles and shaped them- selves in my mind, in a hallucinated vision ... ...was my practice directly after my breakfast to hold animated receptions of Malays, Arabs, and half-castes. They did not clamour aloud for my attention... ... understanding each other. He imagined I would talk to him in some foreign language. I was told that his last words on getting into the sledge to 24 ... ...n reduced to eat dog. I have fed on the emblematical animal, which, in the language of the volatile Gauls, is called la vache enragee; I have lived on... ...t. Gothard Tunnel; and I could listen my fill to the sounds of the English language, as far as it is used at a breakfast-table by men who do not belie... ...r in his room at night walking up and down and praying aloud in the French language.” It must have been somewhat over a year afterward that I saw Mr. ... ...within sight. I had just come up yawning from my cabin. The serang and the Malay crew were overhauling the cargo chains and trying the winches; their ... ..., and their movements were languid. That tropical daybreak was chilly. The Malay quartermaster, coming up to get something from the lockers on the bri... ...I heard his name distinctly pronounced sev- eral times in a lot of talk in Malay language. Oh, yes, I heard it quite distinctly—Almayer, Almayer—and s...

... which rested on the blanket of my bed-place. They referred to a sunset in Malayan Isles and shaped them- selves in my mind, in a hallucinated vision ... ...y after my breakfast to hold animated receptions of 18 Some Reminiscences Malays, Arabs and half-castes. They did not clamour aloud for my attention.... ... understanding each other. He imagined I would talk to him in some foreign language. I was told that his last words on getting into the sledge to come... ...reduced to eat dog. I have fed on the emblem- atical animal, which, in the language of the volatile Gauls, is called la vache enragee; I have lived on... ...t. Gothard Tunnel; and I could listen my fill to the sounds of the English language, as far as it is used at a breakfast-table by men who do not belie... ...r in his room at night walking up and down and praying aloud in the French language.” 64 Some Reminiscences It must have been somewhat over a year af... ...within sight. I had just come up yawning from my cabin. The serang and the Malay crew were overhauling 73 Joseph Conrad the cargo chains and trying t... ...w and their movements were languid. That tropical daybreak was chilly. The Malay quartermaster, coming up to get something from the lockers on the bri... ...t I heard his name distinctly pronounced several times in a lot of talk in Malay language. Oh yes, I heard it quite dis- tinctly—Almayer, Almayer—and ...

...doubt. It was an opportunity for him to talk, and for me to hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces. The... ... resource, to speak English. Perhaps they would know this almost universal language. I knew it—as well as the German language—well enough to read it f... ... I had. Our visi- tors did not stir. They evidently understood neither the language of England nor of France. Very much embarrassed, after having vain... ... in spite of the elegant terms and good accent of the narrator, the German language had no success. At last, nonplussed, I tried to remember my first ... ...rance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” “There is the disadvantage of not ... ...ean. Taste all these dishes. Here is a pre- serve of sea-cucumber, which a Malay would declare to be unrivalled in the world; here is a cream, of whic... ...a; and I remarked chiefly the variety desti- tute of seeds, which bears in Malaya the name of “rima.” Ned Land knew these fruits well. He had already ... ...he tops of the trees, little beans that I recognised as the “abrou” of the Malays, and yams of a superior quality. We were loaded when we reached the ... ... had no trouble in recognising them. “Birds of paradise!” I exclaimed. The Malays, who carry on a great trade in these birds with the Chinese, have se...

... will see what the next three weeks will produce.’ Poor little fellow! his language is so strong that it is almost a surprise to find that he was repr... ...and partly from the development of his genius for philology . Aptitude for language had already shown itself when his sister Fanny had given him some ... ...on spoke German fluently, and wrote German cor- rectly. He had studied the language assiduously for about two years previously, and so successfully th... ... What makes it so difficult is principally this, that as it is an Oriental language, it is entirely different in structure, and in its inflections, &c... ... is entirely different in structure, and in its inflections, &c., from any language I 52 Life of John Coleridge Patteson ever came across. I can’t fa... ...off all the properly called Polynesian isles, whose inhabitants are of the Malay type, and had been the objects of care to the London Mission, ever si... ...ew chapters of Kings with the Lord’s Prayer in a fourth, besides Marsden’s Malay grammar and lexicon. Mrs. Nihill has given me some few sheets of the ...

...in play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every color, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To ... ... jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared ... ...The Nantucketer, he alone resides and rests on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own spec... ... some help from accidental advan tages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language — that man makes one in a whole nation’s census — a mighty pageant... ...r of the fiery pit!” Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad’s language, heteroge neously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases. “Av... ...wer a blade of grass in the field. No tur baned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming Chapter 41 Moby Dick 181 mal... ...r claim to more solid tribute. Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets Chapter 87 The Grand... ... hole, crying, “Aloft there, and rig whips and buckets to wet the sails; — Malays, sir, and after us!” As if too long lurking behind the headlands, ti... ... ship, than to re joice that the ship had so victoriously gained upon the Malays. But still driving on in the wake of the whales, at length they seem...

...thing with her yet.’ We hoisted two flags, which said in the international language of the sea, ‘On fire. Want immediate assistance.’ The steamer grew... ...g oars. Four Calashes pulled a swinging stroke. This was my first sight of Malay seamen. I’ve known them since, but what struck me then was their unco... ...o unmentionable adjectives—in English. The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convinced me I had,... ...leep at last. I had faced the silence of the East. I had heard some of its languages. But when I opened my eyes again the silence was as complete as t...

...n play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To ... ... jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent Street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Y ankees have often scared... ...e Nan- tucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own spec... ...th some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language—that man makes one in a whole nation’s census—a mighty pageant cre... ...wer a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired V enetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was ther... ... any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, fr... ...r claim to more solid tribute. Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, have sal-... ...ot-hole, crying, “Aloft there, and rig whips and buckets to wet the sails;—Malays, sir, and after us!” As if too long lurking behind the headlands, ti... ...he ship, than to rejoice that the ship had so victoriously gained upon the Malays. But still driving on in the wake of the whales, at length they seem...

...lver skull and cross- bones in front of my turban. Two brace of pistols, a Malay creese, and a tulwar, sharp on both sides, and very nearly six feet i... ...upied by Europeans. (It is astonishing, by the way, how comprehensive that language is, and how much can be conveyed in one or two of the commonest ph... ...th luck, impudence, and a complete command of all the Eastern dialects and languages, from Burmah to Afghanistan, to pass scot-free through this somew... ...the pillar of smoke in which I was encompassed, I told Holkar, in Oriental language of course, the best tale I could with regard to the fort. “Sir,” s... ...early proved fatal to me, for, when I *The Major has put the most approved language into the mouths of his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, ... ...s of bank-notes—I found—a piece of paper! with a few lines in the Sanscrit language, which are thus, word for word, translated:— “Epigram. (On disappo... ...It has come to Gahagan Gujputi!” “It is well,” said I, stoutly, and in the Malay language. “Gahagan Gujputi will bear it like a man.” “No doubt—like a...