Author: TUUK, Hermanus Neubronner van der.
Title: Bataksch leesboek, bevattende stukken in het Tobasch, Mandailingsch en Dairisch. Stuk IV: Taalkundige aanteekeningen en bladwijzer, vertaalde stukken en inhoudsopgave.
Description: Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1862. Half cloth (tape on spine). 220,(2) pp. Ex Bibl. J.L. Swellengrevel. - 'The study of Batak was started by H.N. van der Tuuk. It is astonishing to observe how this genius arrived at a nearly complete understanding of the contents of Batak texts with the scanty data concerning the Batak language occuring in the literature in his student days. After his work all these older data lost their importance. .. In the dictionary the Batak words - given in Batak script - are arranged according to a sequence by Van der Tuuk and based on the phonic order of the Sanskrit alphabet. One should never think that one might omit learning the script and rest content with the later romanized dictionaries. For Dairi-Batak, Van der Tuuk still remains the only printed source' (Voorhoeve, Languages of Sumatra, p.9).

Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia linguistics Sumatra linguistics