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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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ellent workalready referred to, has devoted a much more thoroughinvestigation to the question, and has arrived at theconclusion that the close correspondence in phonology,structure, syntax, and a considerable percentage ofthe vocabulary between the Semang and Sakaidialects and the Mon-Khmer languages cannot beaccounted for except on the view that they areessentially members of one family of speech.^ It is to be observed that these two vievvs are notmutually exclusive ; these dialects may well be distantrelatives of the Mon-Khmer languages separatedfrom them in a remote prehistoric age, and longafterwards again influenced by renewed direct contactwith a Mon-Khmer population. There may be two 1 /. J\. A. S., S. B., No. 7, pp. 85-87. Hinterindiem, p. 220. - Ibid. No. 27, pp. 21-56. * Die Sprailicn dcr Sakei imd ■* Beit rage zur Sprachenkunde Semang, p. 581. 454 RELATION TO OTHER LANGUAGES distinct Mon-Khmer sources, just as there have beentwo of Malayan origin, entering into their com-
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KmcrrWalk.-i Skktch Map showing the Distribution oi- the Numeral Systems. position. That this is really the case seems to beindicated by the diversity of the numeral systemswhich are found in the Peninsula.^ In the sketch map liere given,numerals of Malayan typeare neglected :they occur occasionally, es(jecially onthe outskirts of tlie area inhabited bythe wild tribes. The boundary lines between the four systems are more orless hypotlietical. The Arabic numbersrefer to the following dialects :— I. Semang of Mount Jerai ; 2.Semang of Ulu Selama ; 3. Semang of CHAP. HI SEMANG AND SAKAI NUMERALS 455 It has often been remarked that the purer dialectsof the centre of the Peninsula do not possess any-native numerals for higher numbers than three ; the following short lists will therefore suffice for ageneral comparison of the different types that exist:— //. ///. /J ■ I. nai nei (c;- nc) nanu mui (or nioi) 2. bie nar nar mbar 3- (various) ne ni mpe Type I. represents the Semang group

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