MANASOA

[s. 451] : A village in Madagascar, situated Staabout 63 miles E. of St. Augustine’s Bay. tion of the Luther an Free Church Mi ion Society (1901), with 1 mi ionary and wife, 4 native workers, 4 outstations, and 1 place of worship. MANCHU LANGUAGE The language of Man: churia, Chinese Empire, and the court language It of the present Imperial dynasty of China. belongs to the Tung us i an branch of the UralAltaic family, and on the whole is the best known of the Tung us i an tongues. It follows the rule of all Tatar languages in observing the requirements of harmony in the vowels of words, insisting on the division of vowels into “hard” and “soft” cla es. Naturally, it has received and adopted a certain number of Chinese words. It is written with an alphabet peculiar to itself, which, however, can be traced to the letters of the Syriac alphabet. New York, 1899; Williams on A.), Journeys in North China, ria and Eastern Mongolia, 2 vols., London, 1870. (^ MAN AN TEN IN A: A settlement on the E. coast valplain which stretches south from Mukden to the Gulf of Liao-tung. The climate varies from 90° F. in the summer During four to 10° below zero in the winter. months of the year the rivers are frozen up; a short spring is followed by the heat of summer, and a few weeks of autumn usher in the snow and ice of the winter. Manchuria is gradually losing and Manchu- MAND A I LUNG LANGUAGE: A dialect of the Batta (or Batak), spoken in Sumatra. MANDINGO LANGUAGE An African language belonging to the Negro group, and spoken by rather a large body of people found in French Guinea, West Africa, south of the Gambia River. It has been reduced to writing by mi ionaries, Roman letters being used for the purpose.: MANDALAY: A town in Upper Burma, British India, situated 386 miles by rail N. of Rangoon in a plain 2 miles from the Irawadi River. Part of the city is walled and is now a British military post, called Fort Duffer in. There are large man uPo pul at i on, 168,300, of factures of silk goods. whom 147,000 are Buddhists and 13,700 Hindus. (1886), with (1903) 4 mis Station of the sionaries, three with their wives; 2 woman mi ionaries, 46 native workers, 279 profe ed Christians, 2 places of worship, 6 Sunday schools, 1 day Station also of school, and 2 boarding schools. the Mi ion to Lepers in India and the East (1 890) with 1 place of worship and 1 home for untainted Station also of the Mi ionary children of lepers. ABMU Mandarl LansrnaS’e MaraUei Pence A ociation (1892), with 1 mi ionary and his wife, 1 native worker, outstation, 1 place of worship, 2 Sunday schools, and 40 profe ed Christians. Also station of the SPG (1868), with (1903) 1 mi ionary, 16 native workers, 1 day school, 1 place of worship, 1 boarding school, and 283 profe ed Christians, of whom 160 are communicants. Station also of the WMS, with 3 mi ionaries, 1 woman mi ionary, 21 native workers, 8 outstations, 6 Sunday schools, 7 day schools, 1 boarding school, 1 temperance society, and 166 profe ed Christians, of whom 137 are communicants. 1 MANDARI LANGUAGE: One of the nonAry an languages of India; also called the Kol, and spoken by the Kolarian aborigines of Chota Nagpur in Bengal. It has been reduced to writing by mi ionaries with use of the Roman letters. 452