Meaning of Italian of the East | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The Telugu language.
   poetic
2. The Malay language.
   poetic

Examples

“Or in soft whispers may he be address'd, By girls who lisp th' Italian of the East?”

“Our first native servant, a boy called "Omah," came from Timor in the Gulnare, and I then heard spoken for the first time what is now as familiar to me as my mother tongue, the melodious Malayan language, the "Italian of the East," as some writers term it.”

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