A language of the Malayan family, spoken in the kingdom of Ache or Achin, the northernmost part of Sumatra. It is distinguished from all other Malay languages by having the accent on the terminal instead of the penultimate syllable, and by a good deal of monosyllables. It is at present very little known, but its presumed affinity to the monosyllabic languages of Asia renders its study highly interesting for investigating the origin of the Malay race. P. J. V.
Acoma.
A dialect of native American, vernacular in New Mexico. It is one of the dialects spoken by the Pueblo Indians on the R. Grande. It is also called Laguna.
Acroa-Merim.
American: a dialect of the Gez class, vernacular in Brazil. See Von Martius, vol. ii., p. 144.
Adaihe or Adaihi.
A very isolated language of N. American. Spoken in Louisiana, in 1805, by forty individuals only. Vocabulary in “Archæologia Americana.” It is also called Atayo. Vocabulary Amer. Ethn. Trans., vol. ii., p. 95.
Adali (pl. Adaiel or Adal.)
Largely Semitic. An Abyssinian dialect, spoken by the tribes between the Highlands and the sea-coast. See Salt’s “Voyage,” Appdx. i., p. 6. C. T. B.