The omission of the Arabic characters has enabled the printers to put out this work in a very compact form and at a costД¬onsiderably below what it would otherwise have been. Comparatively fewД®uropeans make any serious attempt to learn the Arabic character, and those who do will no doubt require a dictionary rather than a vocabulary. Malay words are printed in roman letters only.

In this vocabulary, as in the 'Practical Malay Grammar,' the Which are in common use or are likely to be needed by the student in the first two or three years of his study of the language have been omitted. Taken in the selection of the words, and it is hoped that very few In such a list it is of course impossible to include all the Malay words which may be met with in even a very limited range of Malay reading, and the student will no doubt meet with some expressions in conversation with Malays which will not be found in this vocabulary. The list of words which is here offered to the public contains over 'Practical Malay Grammar.' It was originally intended to incorporate with the Grammar an English-Malay and a Malay-English Vocabulary, each containing some three or four thousand words, but in view of the fact that most people require a vocabulary containing as large a number of words as possible and are subjected to much disappointment and annoyance when they find that their vocabulary does not contain just the very word which they require, it has been thought better to publish the vocabularies separately and to make them as complete as is consistent with the low price at which such works are expected to sell. This vocabulary has been prepared for use in connection with my PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchДЄuthor of 'A Practical Malay Grammer' etc. Of Household, Nautical and Medical Terms etc. With their English equivalents, together with Containing over 7000 Malay Words or Phrases

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