The treasury of languages

As well as several words in Greek, Hebrew and Sanskrit, some unusual characters are used in this book. These will display on this device as ► (black right-pointing pointer, or w...

A dialect of insular MALAY, vernacular in the Indian Ocean. This island belongs to the Timor group; its inhabitants are of the dark Papuan type. The language is said to differ b...

A dialect allied to JAVANESE, vernacular in an island called Babber by the Dutch; it is one of the Serawatty group, E. of Timor in the Indian Ocean. Small Vocabulary in Latham p...

A dialect of the MALAYAN family spoken in the Island of Celebes or Macassar, an island adjoining Borneo, and written in a different character from OLD MACASSAR. See Crawfurd’s “...

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Hellenic: a dialect of ANCIENT GREEK, spoken in Laconia, Argolis, Corinth, Crete, Rhodes, and several cities of Asia Minor, known to us both through books and inscriptions. It i...

A dialect of CELTIC, closely allied to IRISH and MANX; it is spoken in parts of the Highlands of Scotland, and some of the neighbouring islands. Dictys. by Armstrong, McAlpine,...

A name for the primitive languages of N.E. Africa and S.W. Asia, including the EGYPTIAN, ETHIOPIC, S. ARABIAN, AKKADIAN, or early BABYLONIAN, &c. The root of this word is suppos...

⁂ One of the three best known languages of the coast belonging to the N.W. branch of the Kaffir; the BENGA and DUALLA being the other two. In all three there is a large and laud...

Monosyllabic: the same as LOOSHAI; Aracanese and Bengali words, with others not referable to either of those languages, are found in it. Spoken by the Howlong, Panjas, Ruttun an...

Head of the Italic branch of the ARYAN family of languages, and closely allied to OSCAN, SAMNITE, and UMBRIAN; originally the vernacular speech or idiom of old Italic, spoken in...

CHINESE: the most refined dialect, also called KUAN-HOA; used in classical literature, at Court, and in commerce. Dicty. by Perny, “Fr., Lat., Ch. (Mandarine),” Paris, 1869; Gra...

Correctly MOGHOL, the typical dialect of a large family of Turanian languages, allied to MANTSHU and TURKEE; it is spoken in Central Asia, and written in perpendicular lines, re...

Outcast race of Malabar, inhabiting the forests N. of Cochin. They wear a covering of leaves, and their language is not intelligible to the people of the plains. Corruptly NAIAD...

(3) PARSI or PAZEND; the language as it reappears subsequently to the Arab conquest; purified to a great extent of the Semitic ingredients, and once more thoroughly IRANIC. Know...

Dominant language of SLAVONIC, using the CYRILLIC characters, and very largely augmented from other families of speech, forming one of the most copious languages in the world; s...

The language of Ceylon. ELU, or high-Sinhalese, is DRAVIDIAN, and closely resembles TAMIL; its written characters, however, are more like CANARESE. Colloquial Sinhalese is large...

African: one of the three species assigned by Bleek to the south-eastern branch of the central KAFIRS. It is only known through short vocabularies, the most important of which i...

African: dialect of SUAHILI. The people are called “A-kabi,” singular; “Wa-kabi,” plural; and Dr. Latham suggests that Ukuafi and Kekuafi are verbal mutations of ELOIKOB, the na...

AFRICAN. It touches the Atlantic near the mouth of the R. Formosa, and on the frontier of Dahomey. It extends far inland, bounded chiefly by the Haussa on the north and the Nufi...