Text extracted from opening pages of book: HANDBOOK ofthe MALAY
LANGUAGE CONTAINING Phrases * Grammar and Dictionary WITH SPECIAL
ATTENTION TO Military and Vocational Requirements EDUARD F. WINCKEL
Lecturer, at the University of Southern California Distributed By
DAVID McKAT COMPANY WASHINGTON SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA 1944 P. D. AND
IONE PERKINS SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA DEDICATED TO Indonesia, my
native land. May this book help in the early liberation from the
usurpers. Salam dan Bahagia! EDUARD F. WINCKEL. FOREWORD The
purpose of this handbook is to supply a guide for the acquisi tion
of a practical knowledge of Malay. The Malay language, as spoken in
every-day life by some eighty million people in the Netherlands
East Indies, the Malayan Peninsula, and adjacent territories, is
essentially simple. It is possible, therefore, to acquire in a few
weeks a basic working knowledge of this language which will enable
those who intend to go there to get along very adequately, not only
with the Indonesians, but with most of the other settled
inhabitants of the extensive areas in the Far East. The more
advanced student will soon perceive that there exist minor
differences in the vernaculars of the various sections of Malay
sia, and he will adapt himself easily to the special words,
expressions, and slight variations of pronunciation in the
localities which he may visit. Malaysia is a term used to designate
the Malay Peninsula and all the islands of the Indian Ocean,
including Indonesia. These variations are due to the fact that the
indigenous population consists of many diversified tribes, each
preserving its own dialect for home use but also interjecting a few
words of its private lingo into theMalay, which is the lingua
franca that serves them all in common. Thus, in a few cases,
different words are found in various localities to express the same
idea. An intelligent Indonesian, however, will never fail to
understand a word from some other region, even though he would not
ever use that word himself or the pronunciation might vary from his
own. In order to save the newcomer any perplexity on this point,
such special words have been indicated in the DICTIONARY of this
book by noting in parentheses the locality where the words are
likely to be heard. Abbreviations used for this and other purposes
have been listed on page 185. It should be understood, of course,
that this handbook deals pri marily with the conversational
language which is in common use throughout the thousands of islands
of the Netherlands East Indies, the Malayan Peninsula, parts of
Siam, Burma, Indo-China, and the Philippine Islands. Without a
knowledge of this language, it is prac tically impossible to
conduct any kind of business or vocation in Indonesia. The
influence of foreign traders and successive invaders has strongly
colored this Bngtta franca. Words and phrases of Sanscrit, Arabic,
Persian, Chinese and later of Portuguese, English, and Dutch origin
have, through the ages, been introduced. These terms* altered vii
by the natives to suit the peculiar twist of the Malay tongue, have
become an intrinsic part of the colloquial Malay which is taught in
this book. High Malay, the purer but far more difficult language of
literature, is a mixture of the original Malay of Sumatra, Sanscrit
and Arabic, and has been kept fairly free from further foreign
infiltrations. That rich and flowery language, however, isused only
in highly cultured forms of expression which fall outside the scope
of the practical work here presented. Attention must be called to a
peculiarity of Malay speech. Certain words are used by the natives
only when addressing their superiors, such as their chiefs, or
white people never vice versa. In this hand book, these words which
will be heard, but seldom used by the Westerner are designated
polite. There are also some words which the natives use only when
speak ing to a subordinate or close relative. The Occidental might
use them occasionally to a cooli
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