A variety of dialects spoken by the Tachi and other native tribes in N. America, from whom Texas has been named. See Gallatin’s Synopsis in “Archæol. Amer.” vol. ii., and “Tr. Amer. Ethnol.”
Cadiak, under [K].
Cadmean.
Name for the earliest form of the archaic Greek alphabet, consisting originally of seventeen letters, derived from the Semitic; eight letters being added by Palamedes and Simonides, as we learn from Pliny.
Caffre or Kaffir.
One of a large family of languages spoken by the so-called Kaffirs in Caffraria, S. Africa; remotely derived from Coptic, and mingled with native African.
Cagataic, under [K].
Cagayan.
Malayan: dialect of the Philippine Islands.
Cagliari.