Semitic: the Syriac of Tadmor or Palmyra, with an alphabet of very ornamental character derived from Old Aramaic, but not earlier than the third century A.D., and connected with lapidary Sassanian. W. S. W. V.
Palpa.
Indic: Sanskrit of Nipal.
Pampanga.
Malayan of the Philippine Islands: classed with Bissayan and Tagala.
Pampas.
American: Quichua word for “field” or “plain,” applied to the district of roving tribes who occupy vast level regions between Buenos-Ayres and Chili. The Spanish limit the appellation to the Divihet and Taluhet. See [Puelche].
Pampticough.
American: Algonkin dialect of N. Carolina.