Palæo-Slavic, see [Cyrillic].
Palæotype, see [Glossotype].
Palaik.
American: dialect of Oregon and California (frontier), allied to Lutuami, Shasti, and more remotely to Sahaptin. “Amer. Ethnol.,” vol. ii., p. 98.
Palaong.
Indo-Chinese: dialect of Siam, allied to Ahom.
Palaos, see [Pelew].
Palembang.
The Malay language, as it is spoken at Palembang, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, where it is mixed with a good deal of Javanese, in consequence of the Javanese having anciently colonised this country. It is written partly with the Arabic, partly with an indigenous alphabet; also used for the Rejang and Passumah dialects, and called “Satra renchong.” P. J. V.