The language of the Indians of the highlands around Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia; by many regarded as the so-called secret language of the Incas, as, according to their traditions, Manco Capac, the founder of the Inca dynasty, came from that district; and although ruder and more primitive, it is closely allied to the Quechua, which, after the Inca conquest, became the general language of Peru. The oldest published works extant on Aymara are by Alcabiça, 1585; Ricardo, 1585; Bertonio, 1603-12. D. F. ☞
Aztec.
The language of the aborigines of Mexico; extinct in its original form, it has been fused with Spanish, and is now the native language of Mexican Indians.
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Aberdeen.
A local dialect of Scotland.
Abkhass, see [Absne].
Abunda.
African: same as Bunda. See Vocaby. in Douville’s “Voyage,” Paris, 1832.