Word: malays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...islands and to plan for independence. But it did so grudgingly, unconvinced that those systems would hold. Expansionist Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge, for example, proclaimed, "What alchemy will change the oriental quality of their blood, and set the self-governing currents of the American pouring through their Malay veins?" With misdirected liberality, William Howard Taft, the first civilian governor of the islands, referred to Filipinos as "little brown brothers." Privately, he thought Filipinos would take at least 50 to 100 years to learn "Anglo-Saxon liberty...
...that would have taken weeks, years or lifetimes to assemble before. Word of this advance in data retrieval has been spreading among computer and dictionary buffs for months. Tompa has letters on his desk asking how many words entered English directly from German and how many references to the Malay language appear in the dictionary. Child's play, apparently. He is more interested in the broader possibilities. "It would be relatively straightforward," he says, "to compile dictionaries for distinct historical periods, to produce something, say, that would present only the vocabulary available to Shakespeare. The same thing could be done...
...official language of Singapore is Malay, however; the most commonly spoken tongues are English, Mandarin Chinese and Tamil...
More than three quarters of the population is Chinese, about 15 percent Malay, six percent Indian, Ceylonese, and Pakistani, and about 2.3 percent European, Jewish, Armenian, and Arab...
Nine whites became colored, 506 coloreds became white, two whites became Malay, 14 Malays became white, nine Indians became white, seven Chinese became white, one Griqua became white, 40 coloreds became black, 666 blacks became colored, 87 coloreds became Indian, 67 Indians became colored, 26 coloreds ^ became Malay, 50 Malays became Indian, 61 Indians became Malay, four coloreds became Griqua, four Griquas became colored, two Griquas became black, 18 blacks became Griquas, twelve coloreds became Chinese, ten blacks became Indians, two blacks became other Asian, two other coloreds became Indian, and one other colored became black...