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CHAPTER IV. Minor languages of the archipelago. The Javanese, the Malay, the Bugis, and Macas- sar, of which an account has been rendered in the three preceding chapters, are the most cultivated languages of the Archipelago. Besides the many unwritten languages of negro and brown-com- plexioned savages, there are many written lan- guages of tribes less powerful and cultivated than the great nations of Java, Sumatra, and Celebes. These are the Batta, Rejang, and Lampung of Sumatra ; the Sunda of Java, the Madurese, the Bali, and Lombok ; and to the east, some lan- guages written in the character of Celebes, as those of Sambawa, Butung, &c. Of most of these, copious examples are given in the vocabulary ; and I shall content myself here with offering a brief sketch of one or two of those, concerning which I have received the best information. The Sunda is the language of the mountaineers of the western part of Java, of perhaps one-third 0f the area of the island, but, in round numbers.