Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Vocabulary of the English and Malay Languages, Vol. 1: With Notes; English Malay
As regards the Dialogues, I wish to remind the student who may feel inclined to criticise some of the conversations, that they are supposed to be held between Europeans and natives who in many cases would not be Malays. They would be Chinese, Tamils, Indians and others, to whom the language spoken by Malays to each other is practically unknown. The Chinese carpenter, the Tamil dhobi and the Indian watchman do not speak that language or understand it. If anything, the dialogues to which I refer, err rather in the direction of accuracy and the object is to raise the standard of the lingua franca of the Straits to approach a little nearer to the language of educated Malays in their own country.
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