Daco-Roman,seeWallachian.
Dakota,seeDacotah.
Danger Is.
Polynesian: language of the S. Pacific; a mixed dialect ofSamoanandTahitian.W. G.
Date.
African: a dialect ofAkwapim.H. C.
Dauria.
Alatyan: a class ofTungus.H. C.
Dayak.
Correct form: the word is not “Dyak,” and “Dajak” is only a foreigner’s form of “Dayak.”H. C.
Dembo.
African: a branch ofShilluk.H. C.
Derbendian.
Sub-dialect ofTurkish, spoken by certain tribes near the centre of the Caucasus.G. R.
Devanagari,Dewanagari,see underDi.
Dhangar.
Hindi: applied generally to the people of hill tracts, who come to the plains and engage as labourers; they are also shepherds, and closely allied to the Kurubars of S. India. They have a dialect peculiar to themselves. See Wilson’s “Glossary,” London, 1855.W. E.
Dher.
The lowest race in India, now generally reduced to a state of slavery, but retaining many household words, indicative of their origin, and well worth attention.W. E.SeePariah.
Dhurani.
A dialect ofAffghan.
Djagataic,see underJ.
Djetki.
Sanskritic: a dialect ofPunjabi, spoken by the Djets or Djats, a people of the Punjab and Scinde.G. R.
Djoe-Tongo,seeSaramacca.
Dofar,seeHimyaritic.
Dom,Dombar.
Remnants of an aboriginal race in India, once a powerful people, now scattered as nomades, sometimes as predial slaves, or as acrobats, speaking all dialects, but having a domestic jargon peculiar to themselves. See “Supplementary Glossary, N. W. P.”W. E.
Domingo, St.,seeW. Indies.
Donki,seeTungus.
Double-Dutch.
Gibberish: anything perfectly unintelligible.
Dsebu,Dsekiri,Dsuma.
African:Akudialects. Vocaby. in Kölle’s “Af. Pol.”H. C.
Dsungar,Dzungarian.
Moghol: sub-dialect ofTatar.
Dukhani,seeDakhani.
Dumhoeta.
A dialect ofDanakil.
Duzen.
Germanterm: familiar speech.
Dynke.
African: dialect of the U. Nile.
DyurorLuoh.
African: name for theShilluk, includingBellandaandDembo. See Schweinfurth’s Grammar and Vocaby., Berlin, 1873.H. C.
Dzungarian,seeDsungar.