Romance: dialect of Franco-Italian.
Valencian, Valentian.
Romance: belonging to the same division as the Limousin, i.e., the Provençal; a dialect of Spanish. Dicty. by Lamarca, Valencia, 1842.
Valtelinese.
Romance: dialect of Italian, closely allied to Rhæto-Romanic.
Vancouver’s Island.
American: (1) The Cowichan may be spoken by about 4,000 people. (2) The Quakwolth, by about 2,000. (3) The Koskeemo by only two or three hundred; while (4) the Aht is spoken in its different dialects in Vancouver’s Island and southwards along the shores of the mainland of Washington Territory to nearly the Columbia river by about 4,500 people; indeed the Chinook, spoken by the Chinooks who once thickly lined the lower shores of that river, is a dialect of the Aht (see Irving’s “Astoria”). (5) The “Chinook Jargon,” a rough trading jargon, founded on the Chinook, but mixed up with corrupted Canadian French, English, a few Spanish, two Hawaian, and numerous words from other Indian languages, and universally understood by traders, travellers, and colonists of any “standing” in the region. (Vide Vocaby. by George Gibbs, published by the Smithsonian Institution.) R. B.
Vandal.
A form of the word Wend. “Histoire” by Marcus, Paris, 1836.
Van Diemen’s Land.