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Tangkai Rambang, Fruit Stalks of tin* i am bang croepci

Sayap Lclayang, the swallows wings. Plate XX

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Galigas or Buah Slabit, representing how a carrier’s basket is

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hubong hudangzJy* hulat cj j* harta y* htdang

hitong hitarn hisap .

3. The short vowel i (or pipit) has no equivalent in Jawi : —

j~» t bisar ^ binar tiluk ;jJU tilor kichil but when it

fotms an initial syllable, the existence of such a syllable is denoted by \ inserted as a graphic prop : —

enam imas emak.

4. The glottal check at -the end of a word is denoted

(а) Generally by <j : —

^5 besok &?■ bilek Jf*) amok chantek

ajak U masak *

(б) in a very few common words (presumably crystallised before a system of spelling was evolved) by : —

J.C baik viC t; naik

(c) in a very few words by hamzah *

^ inche '

kokok.

b dato’

» fS ji poko* roko*

5. Hamzah * is also used to indicate a break between two

vowels when an a sound passes on means of a gentle aspirate : —

to another vowel only by

Cj jV lawai

but

laut

j>)l lay an

M

fy * Y lain

JjY lawak

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J^Y lauk

sawah

»>

•j L» sauh

In doing this it sometimes replaces an alif following an altf: \~$a-akan~akan^\ia4tn t U sa-elok-elok. Sometimes

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it stands for the a of sa - + a graphic prop l! ^jfL»sa~orang

(from p -f sa-ekor ( from \ 4- ^ ) or it denotes the presence of some other syllable that would otherwise be lost fjJS* di-ata$ (not datas) iS kiimpat jb iS" kiadaan

(not kadan). mereka itu.

6. , (a) Vowels are seldom inserted further back than in the penultimate syllable pf a word : —

J— sadikat y-’.j* hariman *!+*.> dahulu

yy

(b)

(C)

haluan manusik

And this may be seen in compound words : —

£JLU hufa-balang jL~C bagai-mana t apa-kala

J i~&\ apa-bila sa-batang barang-kali.

g ji& ku-lari

The rule is also illustrated by the spelling of derivative words : —

CjS kata but 'S katakan ; makan but

makanan ;

ingat but ingot an ;

g\jraja t but j kerajaan though when the stress is stronger on the syllable before the penultimate the vowellation is not changed e.g. o^b ddrat

^ ^b ddrat an ; mdlas kimdlasaiu

7. The following are general rules for the use of vowels though they do not go quite so far as modern “ kitchen-maid ” spelling in the insertion of them : —

(«) Before two consonants never insert any vowel but only the graphic prop :

i tumpat sumpah cJuJ lompat . bantal

pandai . Examples of the graphic prop are CJU\ imp at engkm fmbun inchi 9

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