Root-Diggers or Diggers.

American: Indians of the Sierra Nevada, California, classed as Shoshones. They are also called Gens de Pitie, Radigeurs, and Maradiços; the most degraded race of Red Indians in N. America.

⁂ The language is allied to the Negritic or Pygmean of the Andamans. H. C.

Roots.

Ultimate forms of words, the primitive basis of a language, serving to connect related languages in different parts of the globe, and frequently transferred from one family of speech to another.

Rosetta-Stone.

Egyptian: remarkable object of antiquity in the B. Museum; Bilingual inscription of Ptolemy Epiphanes, B.C. 196, in Hieroglyphic, Demotic, or Enchorial, and Uncial Greek.

Rossawn, Rusan.

Indian: a dialect of Bengali spoken by Hindus of Arakan. See [Ruinga].