Batavian-Malay

What is called Batavian-Malay is perhaps rather a Sundanese than a Malay dialect. It is the language of the natives of Batavia and its environs, a population sprung from the conflux of individuals from almost every part of the Archipelago; yet the Sundanese element seems to predominate. This language ought not to be confounded with the low-Malay spoken at Batavia by Europe ans and natives in their ordinary intercourse, which is merely Malay corrupted by the introduction of foreign words and forms of speech. To these Europe ans the language which the natives use among themselves is quite unintelligible.     P. J. V.