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but which, with a few exceptions, may be found in some Manuscripts. In words of Arabic and Sanscrit origin, the form of orthography most analogous to that of the original language, hasbeen generally adopted.
In using this Vocabulary, the greatest caution will be necessary with regard to the adjectives, verbs, pronouns, and particles, as the offices of all these parts of speech are often performed by the same substantives, in almost all the Indo-Chinese and East-insular languages. The greatest care however is required with respect to the PARTICLES, as it is chiefly on these, that the difficulties these languages depend.
In collecting Vocabularies, the original purpose of this compilation will be best answered, by preferring on all occasions, and in almost every language, the native term, though it may happen to be vulgar, to a more polite term, if it happen to be of foreign origin; for by these means the series of vocabularies will best tend to illustrate the history of the Eastern tribes.
In those languages, which have received a considerable degree of cultivation in composition, such as the MÓN, or original language of Pegu, the ANAM, or language of Cochin-China, the JAVANESE, the BATTA of Sumatra, the BUGIS or UGI and the MACASAR languages of Celebes, the BALI, or peculiar language of the island of Bali, the TA-GALA language of the Philippines, and the JAPANESE, LIU-KIU, and FORMOSAN languages, it will be desirable to have, if possible, both the more ancient, and the more modern, the more learned, and the more vulgar names.
