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Wendic: a dialect of Slavonic, somewhat allied to Czech or Bohemian, vernacular in Poland. Dicty., Polish and English, Berlin, 1851.

For Polish-Lithuanic, see Samogitian.

Polynesian.

(1) Eastern: the language of the brown Polynesians of the S. Pacific. It is spoken in many dialects, such as Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian, Hawaian, Niuen. A large percentage of words in Eastern Polynesian are identical with Malayan, to which family it undoubtedly belongs. W. G. L.

(2) Western: the language spoken by the black Polynesians or those of Papuan origin. The different dialects are very numerous, and widely distributed over the New Hebrides, Loyalty Is., New Caledonia, &c. W. G. L. See [Kelænonesian], [Micronesian]. ☞

Polysyllabic.

“Of many syllables,” used of languages “when roots are modified by the addition of prefixes and suffixes.” Japanese is a typical language of polysyllabic character.

Polysynthetic.

Said of languages that incorporate many distinct words into one compound; the native languages of America are essentially incorporating. See [Agglutinative].