Abadja.
African: a sub-dialect of the Otam.
Abak.
A dialect of the Philippine Islands, closely allied to Bissayan and Tagala. See Jülg’s “Vater,” p. 1.
Abantes.
An extinct form of speech, classed as Thraco-Illyrian, formerly vernacular in the I. of Eubœa, now called Negropont or Egripos, in the Grecian Archipelago. Adelung: “Mithridates,” ii., p. 362.
Abasci or Abassian, see [Absne].
Abbeville.
A sub-dialect of French, vernacular in Picardy. See De Soilly’s “Idiome Picard,” Abbeville, 1833.