Negritic: typical language of dark-skinned Polynesians. It is the vernacular speech of New Guinea, and spread through many smaller islands. “Papua” is said to be a Malay word for “frizzled hair,” but see the Greek πάππος (lanugo carduorum), and our own “pappous” = “woolly.” See Wallace’s “Malay Archipelago,” and Dissertation: Crawfurd’s Malay Grammar. See [Alfuros].
Param.
African: a dialect of Kaffir.
Paranapura, see [Xebero].
Parauana, see [Wapisian].
Parbuttia.
This word means “the language of the hills”—“purbut” “a hill.” It is a dialect of Hindi, the Court language of Nipal, and is spoken generally by the Khus, a military tribe of Nipal, and generally by all the Nipalese people, as Hindustani is in British India. A. C.
Parechi.
American: tribe of Tamanaque.
Pareni.