The myriad languages

THE MYRIAD LANGUAGES
There is something that is attractive about all those races. To Sir Stamford Raffles, jades with the sullenness, the cringing of Bengal, java in 1811 was an enchanted isle, its people fresher from the hand of nature than those of India. Captain marryat the novelist who, as a naval officer at Rangoon in 1824, fought the Burmese hand to hand thought them the best race in Asia, brave, cheerful, intelligent, above all kind of free.
The mongoloid were not the last, and in smaller numbers, there arrival another and darker stocks indeed many other stocks trickling over the hills from India or creeping along the coast in dug-outs and then, as the ages passed, in little sailing ships. By 50 A.D Indian traders were founding new settlement, Hindu or even Buddhist, in the town along the coast the earliest record in the Philippine across the China Sea; its language is Sanskrit, its alphabet the south Indian alphabet used to this very by Bur man and Siamese, Cambodian and Javanese. The people retain their myriad language, and in the remote interior they are illiterate or even pagan, but the literate culture are recognizably Indian. There is no trace of Chinese influence, for the Chinese did not began to occupy Yunnan till the thirteen century, and there culture influence stopped there: the only Chinese culture area south Tongking is Annam even here the dynasties were Hindu until the fifteenth century. To be continue in the next post