The dialect of several populations, vernacular in N.W. Africa; classed as a sub-dialect of Timmani.
Bagwan.
A native patois of British India, derived from Tamil.
Bahasa-tanah, see [Amboyna].
Baikha.
A dialect of Ostiak of the Yeniseian class, spoken in Asiatic Russia. See Vocabulary in Latham, p. 136.
Bajau or Bajou.
Dialects of Malay, spoken by the Sea-gipsies. See Vocabulary in Wallace; Appdx. to “Malay Archipelago.”
⁂ “Fishmen of Borneo.” Bajau properly belongs to all Borneo. The Bugis traders, who belong to all that Archipelago, cannot properly speak Bajau. Bugis is perhaps truly the language of the pirates of those seas, their head-quarters being (the Illanons) Illanon Bay, S.W. of Mindanao, one of the Philippines. E. B. See [Biajuk].
Bakele.