Botocudo.
A large class of native languages, vernacular in Brazil, S. America.
⁂ The dialect is quite distinct from the Guarani. D. F. ☞
Boustrophedon.
“To turn,” as the ox in ploughing; a term used of early Greek writing, which went alternately in different directions; Solon’s laws were thus written. It comes intermediate between the Semitic order of writing, viz., from right to left, and the European form from left to right.
Bouton, see [Buton].
Bowditch Island.
The most easterly reef island of S. Pacific, occupied by Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries. Had no written language before visited by missionaries, and so nearly resembles the Samoan that its books are easily read and understood by the people. W. G.
Bowri.
A dialect of Tamul.