The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan ... - Wallace Online

464 APPEXDIX.race, as the people of Ternate, Tidoi'c, and Batchian, speaklanguages which are as decidedly of a Papuan type ; and this,I believe, arises from their having oidginally immigrated tothese islands in small numbers, and by marrying native womenacquired a considerableportion of their language, which laterarrivals of Malays were obliged to learn and adopt if theysettled in the country. As I have hardly mentioned in mynarrative some of the names of the tribes whose languages arehere given, I will now give a list of them, with such explanatoryremarks as I may think useful to the ethnologist, andthen leave the vocabularies to speak for themselves..LIST OF VOCABULAEIES COLLECTED.Those 7nar7cecl * are lost.1. Malay.—The common colloquial Malay as spoken inSingajDore ; written in the Arabic character.2. Javanese.—Low or colloquial Javanese as spoken inJava ; written in a native character.*3. Sassak.—Spoken by the indigenes of Lombock, who areMahometans, and of a pure Malay race.*4. Macassar.—SjDoken in the district of Southern Celebes,near Macassar ; written in a native character. Mahometans.*5. Bugis.— Spoken over a large part of Southern Celebes;written in a native character distinct from that of Macassar.Mahometans.6. Bouton.—Spoken in Boutong, a large island south ofCelebes. Mahometans."7.Salayer.— Spoken in Salayer, a smaller island south ofCelebes. Mahometans.*8. Tomore.—Spoken in the eastern peninsula of Celebes, andin Batchian, by emigrants who have settled there. Pagans.A^o^^.— The people who speak these five languages of Celebesare of pure IMalayan type, and (all but the last) are equal incivilization to the true Malays.