A Manual of the Malay Language: With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Manual of the Malay Language: With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay

At present the use of Malay, as far as Englishmen are concerned, is chiefly confined to the officers of the Colonial Government in the British possessions in the Straits of Ma lacca and in' the native states adjoining them, and to other residents in those parts, and in the Dutch settlements in the East. To these may be added the English communities of Labuan and Sarawak, and merchants, tr...