Identifier: paganracesofmala01skea (find matches)
Title: Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Skeat, Walter William, 1866- Blagden, Charles Otto, 1864-1949
Subjects: Ethnology -- Malay Peninsula Malays (Asian people) Malay Peninsula -- Social life and customs Malay Peninsula -- Religion Malay Peninsula -- Aboriginal dialects
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eTongking delta and its immediate neighbourhood,and the south - eastern coastland, which is nowAnnam and Cochin China, was occupied, under thename of Champa, by a race called Cham, whoselanguage, already mentioned, was a mixture ofMon-Khmer with Malayan elements.^ Apart from the special interest attaching to themas having been the earliest indigenous vehicles ofliterary culture in Indo-China, the Mon-Annamlanguages are of unique importance in connectionwith the past history of South-eastern Asia. Theyare related in various ways to Nicobarese, Khasi, andthe Munda (or Kolarian) dialects of India on theone hand ; they present curious analogies with the This interesting language, together dictionary of it by Aymonier and Caba- with a few allied dialects of ruder ton (which, by the courtesy of the latter, neighbouring tribes, still lingers on in I have been permitted to use in proof) S.E. Annam and part of Camboja. A is in the press, and will shortly appear. 442 RELATION TO OTHER LANGUAGES
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CHAP. Ill RELATIONS OF MON-ANNAM FAMILY 443 Malayo-Polynesian family on the other; and yetmore strangely they have a certain number of pointsof contact with the northern languages of the greatIndo-Chinese conglomeration which includes theTibeto-Burman, Kareng, Chinese, and Tai families.^ How much of all this is genuine original relation-ship, how much is due to mere historic contact orborrowings from some common source, it is, however,as yet impossible to say. So far as the connectionwith Nicobarese and Khasi is concerned, it wouldseem that the relationship is vital, entering as it doesinto the very structure of the languages. In the caseof the Muncla dialects this has not been proved ; andtheir structure (especially their syntax) presentsmany marked differences from the Mon-Annam.^ 1 As to the connection with Nico-barese, see especially the grammar ofNicobarese by Temple, annexed to hisreport on the Census of 1901. The best authority for Nicobareseitself is Man, Dictionary of the Cen

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