Classification of the Indo-Chinese and Oceanic Races

Abstract

IT is surprising that Mr. Murton should have had any difficulty about the characters used by me to indicate the word PapÛwah. The form in question is identical with his own, the apparent difference being due to the two different characters respectively employed by us to express the labial p. In the Arabic alphabet there is no sign for this letter, because the sound does not occur in the Arabic phonetic system. Hence other Muhammadan nations using the Arabic alphabet supply the missing letter in various ways, the Persians, Afghans, and Indians by the form??, the Malays usually by??. Hence the two apparently different but really identical forms?? and?? which have puzzled Mr. Murton and his Malays of Singapore.