Preface

In preparing this abridged edition of a larger work my aim has been to supply a full Malay Vocabulary in a book of conveniently small size.

I have followed the phonetic system of romanised spelling prescribed by the Federated Malay States Government, but have added a good many variants to assist persons accustomed to other orthographical rules.

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