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 POLYNESIAN LANGUAGES. 101 of the rest of the tribes. The following are ex- amples : lawas, old, of long standing ; hulun^ I ; mu, thou ; kulon, west ; weian, east ; lor, north ; kidul, south ; muning, angry ; ddlik, to hide ; mamah, to masticate ; bangun, to mend ; tihay 1. to fall, 2. to arrive ; jupuk, to take ; suweic, to tear. Javanese tradition, in fact, of no very re- mote antiquity, describes the existence of a connec- tion of a very intimate nature between Java and the state of Patani, on the eastern shore of the Malayan peninsula. The greater number of words common to the Malay and Javanese languages are, however, of a more radical and permanent character than those just referred to ; and whether they be of the great Polynesian language, or modern Javanese, seems of less consequence than to determine that the lan- guage of Java, under whatever name, and not the Malay, is the primitive tongue. In words com- mon to both languages, it often happens, that the figurative sense of a word only is recognized in Malay ; at other times, the Malay word is a de- rivative from some Javanese root ; and, occasional- ly, the Malay word, which appears, at first view, a simple word, is a compounded one in Javanese, the component parts of which have no existence in the former language. A few examples of each will, I think, satisfy the reader of the originality of the Javanese. The literal sense of the word