Manual of the Malay language, by William Edward Maxwell

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

Author: William Edward Maxwell

Release Date: May 26, 2008 [EBook #25604]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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[Transcriber's Note:

This text is intended for users whose text readers cannot use the "real" (unicode/utf-8) version of the file. Characters that could not be fully displayed have been "unpacked" and shown between braces:

[k.], [h.], [t.], [d.], [n.], [m.], [r.] (letters with dot under: except [k.] and [h.], these are used only in Sanskrit words) [.n] (n with dot over, in Sanskrit words) [)a], [)e], [)u] (vowel with breve or "short" sign) [-a] (a with macron or "long" sign)

In the section on Sanskrit origins, anusvara was printed as m with tilde. It has been changed in this e-text to [m.] (m with dot under). Note also that [´s] is written as ç, [s.] as sh, and [r.] as [r.]i.

Footnote 53 of the Introduction refers to "the peculiar vowel sound represented in Arabic by the letter

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