A dialect of Malay. See [Samang].
Jaoi, Jaoia.
American: Carib of Trinidad; it is closely allied to Tamanak. See De Laet: “Orbis Novus,” &c., Leiden, 1633.
Japanese.
Polysyllabic: the vernacular tongue of Nipon, Jesso, and the Kurile Is.; in its root words it is allied to the Moghol family, but its written characters are derived from Chinese; it has a syllabic alphabet, containing vowels and consonants in one sign, and is written in vertical columns from top to bottom. The language has no gender or article, but many pronouns, and the designations applied to various objects frequently change with the sex of the speaker. Dicty. by Hepburn, 1867; Grammar, 1861; “Dialogues,” by Alcock, 1863; “Anthologie,” by Rosny, Paris, 1871. See Loo-Choo.
Japhetan.
A name for the Aryan or Indo-European family of languages.
Jargon.
(1) French word for Gibberish.