A very large class of native N. American dialects, including the Chippewas, Blackfoot, Ogibeway, Ottawa, Mohican, Shawnees, and other principal eastern tribes of red Indians. Vocab. Amer. Ethn. Trans., vol. ii., pp. 78, 106.
Alieh, see [Eyish].
Alikhulip.
A dialect of Fuegian, spoken in Terra del Fuego, S. America. Described in Darwin’s “The Voyage of the Beagle.” See also Tekeenica and Tsoneca.
Alleutiac, see [Milcocayac].
Allophylian.
A name for the American and certain unclassified languages; generally used for all languages which philologists have not yet defined.
Allor.
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 but little from that of the neighbouring island of Solor. P. J. V.
Almeida.