A name for the Kurdish dialect, written in the characters of the Armenian alphabet.

Armorican.

A Celtic dialect, called also Breton, anciently vernacular in Armorican Gaul; it was the national language of the independent Duchy of Brittany, and is still spoken in the modern French departments of Finisterre, Morbihan, and Côtes-du-Nord; the language is closely allied to Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Gaelic, &c.

Arnaut, see [Albanian].

Arniya.

A dialect of Dardu, allied to Kashkari.

Aro or Oro.

A dialect of W. Africa, allied to Mbofia, vernacular in the locality of Brass Town.

Aroo or Arru.

Dialects of Papuan, vernacular in a group of islands lying to the S.W. of New Guinea, in the Asiatic Archipelago.