(3) Dialects: “Stalder gives specimens of 35 in German, 16 in French, 5 in Romansch, 8 in Italian.”—Taylor’s “Words and Places,” London, 1865, p. 49.
⁂ According to Mr. Hepworth Dixon we find [1872]—384,561 families speaking German, 134,183 French, 30,293 Italian, 8,759 Romansch. See [Romana].
Sydney.
Australian: somewhat allied to Muruya.
Syllabic.
Said of alphabets with “letters that represent syllables instead of simple sounds.” See [Japanese].
Syouah, see [Siwah].
Syriac.
Semitic: typical language of the Aramaic, N. branch; closely allied to Hebrew, and written in an alphabetic character of its own; it has a considerable literature, and is spoken near Damascus and in parts of Kurdistan, on the confines of Persia and Turkey. Palmyrene is the Syriac of Tadmor: and Estrangelo is the name of its oldest written character. Grammar (Modern) by Stoddart, N. Haven, 1855; Archaic (N.T.) by Yeates, London, 1819. Dictionary by Castelli; Chrestomathia by Roediger, Halle, 1868. See [Peshito].