Austral.
A group of numerous islands east of Tahiti, and so far Tahitian as to use books in the Tahitian language, though having some local peculiarities by the introduction of letters not in Tahitian; example, “param-akoako” = “exhortation.” W. G.
Australian.
The natives, now fast disappearing, had numerous dialects, all more or less closely allied; resemblances have been traced to the Tamul and other languages of S. India; the Polynesian, and Papuan. See Grey’s “Vocabulary” (of S. Western A.) 2nd Edit., London, 1841; and others by Ridley; Sidney, 1856, 1866: Eyre’s “Discoveries,” vol. ii., p. 391.
Auvergne.
Dialect of Provençal; glossaries in “Mem.: Soc. Ant.” French vols. ii., xii.
Avan or Avani.
American: a sub-dialect of Maipur.
Avar (1).