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.