Beaver.

American: dialect of the Beaver Indians, N. of the Hudson’s Bay country; sometimes classed as Chipewayan.

Bechuana.

African: a dialect of Kaffir. Moffat’s “Spelling-book,” London 1826; “Bukauiane A B C,” Kapstadt, 1839. See [Sechuana].

Bedfordshire.

A dialect of England. See “An Analysis of English, with an Analysis of the dialect of Bedfordshire,” by T. Batchelor, London, 1809. W. W. S.

Begharmi.

A dialect of central Africa, spoken to the S.E. of Lake Tshad; Dr. Barth assigns it to the Shiluk class. Vocabulary in Klaproth’s “Essai sur la Langue du Bornou,” Paris, 1826.

Beja or Boje.

A dialect of N.E. Africa, vernacular at Kosseir, the ancient Apollonopolis Parva, in Egypt. It is also called Bishari. See Burckhardt’s “Travels in Nubia,” pp. 160-1.