Hellenic: the ancient dialect of Laconia; a form of Doric Greek, with some peculiar words.

Spokein.

American: tribe of Flat Heads.

Squallyamish.

American: same as Squally. Dialect of Puget’s Sound, spoken about 49° N. lat. “Amer. Ethnol.,” vol. ii.; “Journal of the Royal Geographical Society,” 1841.

Stages of Language.

Term used for periods in the growth of a language, it being supposed that a language may develop from Monosyllabic to Agglutinative or Incorporating, and finally become Inflectional.

Steiermarkish.

(1) Wendic: sub-dialect of Slovenian.

(2) Germanic. See Sartoris: “Neuester Reise,” Leipsig, 1811. See [Styrian].