African: same as Fulah.
Philip (Port).
A native Australian dialect, allied to Mena.
Philippine.
Polynesian: dialects of the Philippine Islands. Bissayan, Haraya, Hiligueina or Ilocana, all classed as Malayan. Dicty. by Mentrida, Manila, 1841. See [Negritic].
Philology.
Science of words and language. See [Comparative].
Phœnician.
Semitic: extinct language of Tyre, Sidon, and other towns in ancient times, and closely allied to Biblical Hebrew; the alphabetic characters are similar to those found upon Hebrew coins, and having been adopted in Greece and Italy, have originated those of modern Europe. Gesenius: “Scripturæ Phœniciæ Monumenta,” 4to, 1837; “Die Phönizische Sprache,” by Schröder, Halle, 1869: Levy: “Phöniz. Lexicon,” 8vo, 1866. See [Punic].