Q.

Qamamyl,seeQuamamyl.

Qua.

African: dialect of Calabar. Vocabulary by Robertson, “Notes on Africa,” London, 1819.

Quabaily,underKabyle.

Quada,Quado.

American: dialect of Miranda, Brazil; same asGuato.

Quadroons.

Quarter-blood: issue of white and mulatto.

QuainorQuanian.

Tchudic: name used for that dialect ofFin, called alsoNorwegian-Laplandish; vernacular in Finmark, a portion of Lapland belonging to Sweden and Norway. It is the Norwegian and Swedish name for the northern half of the Gulf of Bothnia, and the name of the people is Kainulaiset.

Quaiquai.

African: same asHottentot.

Quakwolth.

American: dialect of Vancouver Is., spoken N. of Nanaimo on the E. coast, and also by the Comoucs, but mixed withCowichanat Port Augusta.R. B.

Quamamyl(Gamamyl).

African: a vocabulary under this name is given by Cailliaud, which seems to be theFazogloof Rüppell under an earlier name.R. G. L.

Quappa.

American: Sioux tribe of the Arkansas; dialect closely allied toOmaha.

Quaqua.

American: same asMapoje.

Quaratshi.

Romany:PersianGipsy.

Quedah.

Malayan: same asSemang-jan.

Queen Charlotte Cape.

Melanesian: a district of New Caledonia; the language is known asBaladea, but the name ofDuaurahas been proposed by Gabelentz.

Queen Charlotte’s Is.

American: The following races are found there: Cumshewar, Keesarn, Kigarnee, Massit, and Skittegat.

Quellimane.

African: dialect of the Mozambique.

Quengues.

American: same asCayuga.

Queres,seeKeres.

Quiche,Kiche.

American:Mayalanguage of Guatemala; dialects areCachiquelandSutugil. Grammar by De Bourbourg, Paris, 1862.

Quichua,Kechhua.

American: native dialect of Peru, formerly spoken by the Incas, and still vernacular along the W. course of the Andes. A dialect is calledChinchaysayo. Analogies withSanskritsuggested by Lopez. Grammars by Markham, London, 1864; by Tschudi, Vienna, 1853.

⁂ Allied toAymara,Panos, andPacaguayra.H. C.☞

Quintikuk.

American: tribe of Narraganset Indians.

Quito.

American: local dialect ofQuichua.

Quoja.

African: short vocabulary for the delta of the Niger, probably theIboof R. Kwá. Mithridates iii., 1.R. G. L.


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