Dialect of Provençal; glossaries in “Mem.: Soc. Ant.” French vols. ii., xii.
AvanorAvani.
American: a sub-dialect ofMaipur.
Avar(1).
An extinct dialect, belonging to the fifth and sixth centuriesA.D.It was Turkish.
Avar(2).
The most important dialect ofLesgian. See Vocabulary in Güldenstadt’s “Travels,” and “Asia Polyglotta.”
Avaricoto.
American: Carib of Cumana, belonging to the Tamanack division.
Avekvom.
A dialect of the Ivory-coast, W. Africa.
Awaiya.
A dialect ofMalay, vernacular in Ceram, an island of the Indian Ocean; quoted in Wallace’s “Malay Archipelago.”SeeAhtiagoandHawaiian.
Aymara.
The language of the Indians of the highlands around Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia; by many regarded as the so-called secret language of the Incas, as, according to their traditions, Manco Capac, the founder of the Inca dynasty, came from that district; and although ruder and more primitive, it is closely allied to theQuechua, which, after the Inca conquest, became the general language of Peru. The oldest published works extant on Aymara are by Alcabiça, 1585; Ricardo, 1585; Bertonio, 1603-12.D. F.☞
Aztec.
The language of the aborigines of Mexico; extinct in its original form, it has been fused withSpanish, and is now the native language of Mexican Indians.