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every communication becomes interesting, and would be highly acceptable to the Council of the College of Fort William.
For facilitating labours of this sort, it has been the object of the compiler to select the most useful list of vocables, and arrange them in the order that they may best illustrate each other. In a first work of this nature, to escape every species of inaccuracy is hopeless, and in this instance, it has not even been found practicable altogether to avoid repetitions. In several instances, however, what may seem repetition, in one of the languages, has been admitted for the purpose of illustrating some peculiarity in another.
In order to facilitate the use of this Vocabulary the Barman and Maláyu alphabets are subjoined.
The Barma Alphabet.
Series of Vowels.
Series of Consonants.
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