Download or read book Malay-English Vocabulary written by William Girdlestone Shellabear and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Malay-English Vocabulary: Containing Over 7000 Malay Words or Phrases With Their English Equivalents, Together With an Appendix of Household, Nautical and Medical Terms, Etc The demand for a new edition of this vocabulary has enabled me to correct a few errors which crept into the first edition, and to add a number of words which, though not in frequent use, are liable to be met with by the student. An attempt has also been made in this edition to indicate words which are peculiar to the Malay spoken by the Babas, or Straits born Chinese, and some of their differences of pronunciation. The difference between Baba Malay, and the language as it is spoken by the Malays themselves, consists, however, not merely in such variations as can be shown in a vocabulary. There is a radical difference in the structure of the sentences. For the most part the same words are used, but the idiom is different, and would require a more thorough elucida tion than could be given in the introduction to a vocabulary. It is hoped, however, that the Baba Malay words here given, marked Will help to explain some of the peculiarities of pronunciation met With in the Settlements, where Chinese in uence predominates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."