Name for writing in which single characters express ideas; the hieroglyphics or picture writing of Egypt, and the languages of ancient Babylonia and Assyria are partly ideographic. G. R.

Idiom.

A native peculiarity of speech.

Igarra.

African: dialect of the Yoruba.

Igbira.

African: a dialect of the Yoruba. See [Igala].

Igbira-hima, Igbira-panda.

African: dialects of the Nufi.

Ighur, see [Uigur].