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[Illustration: _JAVANESE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT._
The origin of the Oceanic dialects, and of those of India
beyond the Ganges more especially the civilized idioms of the
Indian Archipelago, is referred to a language which was that
of an unknown people inhabiting the island of Java. From this
primitive language the modern Javanese is supposed to be
immediately derived. Javanese literature consists of poems,
dramas, songs, and historical and religious writings. The
accompanying facsimile is from a mythological-religious tract
written upon a vegetable paper of native manufacture, and
ornamented with grotesque drawings.]
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