Published in 1812, this study of Malay in its written form was begun during William Marsden's service with the East India Company in Sumatra (1771-9). He contin

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced

This book documents modern Baba Malay, a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language with a Sinitic substrate. Formed via intermarriage between Ho

Excerpt from A Grammar of the Malayan Language, Vol. 1: With an Introduction and Praxis The Malayan, or, according to the pronunciation of the natives, the Mala