Monosyllabic.

A name for certain primitive forms of speech, including Chinese, wherein each letter or character represents an entire word, and polysyllables are recognised by the speaker as compounds. In such languages “roots are used as words, without change of form.” Also called Isolating.

Monqui.

American: Hervas’ name for the Waikur.

Monsonik.

American: dialect of Cree.

Montagnards.

American: French name for the Sheshatapoosh.

Montak, Montauk.

American: Indians of Long Is. “Arch. Amer.,” vol. ii.