Malayan: dialect of the Dutch residency in the highlands of Padang, Sumatra, which was anciently an independent monarchy called Menang Kabaw. It differs considerably from ordinary Malay. Vocabulary, &c., edited by Pynappel (Dialogues: Menangkabaw and Malay). P. J. V.
Menasser (Beni).
Language of the Beni Menasser, a branch of the Berber. See Libyan. Baron de Slane first published the pronouns of this language, which differ so much from the other Libyan languages that it must be unintelligible to those who know only the others; yet it is small and unimportant. H. Duveyrier (1857) places the tribes near to the Hhallûla Lake, and says that they have adopted Arab manners, an Arabic name, and an immensity of the Arabic language. He gives an extremely limited vocabulary. He thinks that it and the dialect called that of the Benî Mezâb, is a branch of the Zenatia dialect, and is connected with that spoken in the oasis of Touât. But the last is supposed to be Tamashight. F. W. N.
Mende, see Tschur.
Mendi.
African: quoted from “Outline of a Vocabulary,” London, 1841.
Menemoni, see [Menomeni].
Menero-downs.
Dialect of Australian. Vocaby. “Jnl. R. Geog. Soc.,” 1839.
Mengwe, see [Maqua].