E. W. Birch, Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1878)
“ From a literary point of view it will doubtless tend to settle the language and to give an uniformity to the various dialects of Malay, an object which the original projectors claim to have had in view. Its influence can scarcely fail to be considerable on the written language. ”
E. W. Birch, Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1878)
“ Next comes the correspondence column, which contains a letter from a correspondent in Malacca narrating the running amuck (Mengâmok) of a Malay on board the Japan, and the consequent wounding of sixteen persons. The majority of letters addressed to the Editor are written with the intention of giving pieces of local news not likely to be otherwise communicated, of exposing some disreputable character, of relating some wonderful adventure or phenomenon, and of eliciting information upon various subjects often abstrusely grammatical. ”
E. W. Birch, Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1878)
“ About the same time efforts were made by others to produce both Malay and Tamil newspapers; a Tamil Paper having been brought out prior to the publication of the "Tangai Snahen," and two Malay Papers subsequently to that of the "Jawi Peranakkan," but these have, after a short run, died out, and the "Jawi Peranakkan" and the "Tangai Snahen" are, at the present moment, the sole representatives in Singapore of the two languages. ”
