A dialect of the Malayan family spoken in the Island of Celebes or Macassar, an island adjoining Borneo, and written in a different character from Old Macassar. See Crawfurd’s “Malay Grammar,” Dissertation p. 88. “Vocabulary,” Mission Press, 1833; “Chrestomathies,” Paris. See [Mangkasar].
Buji.
African: a sub-dialect of Kabyle.
Bulanda.
A dialect of W. Africa, allied to Bago.
Bulgarian.
Also called Cyrillic; a dialect of Slovack origin, brought into Europe by the Bulgars, an Asiatic race who settled in ancient Mœsia, S. of the Danube, in E. Europe. Bulgaria, so named from them, is a province of European Turkey. Morse and Vasilief, Grammar, &c., Constantinople, 1859-60. ☞
Bulgarian, Old, see [Slavonic].
Bullom.
A dialect of Mandingo, vernacular near Sierra Leone, W. Africa.