The Treasury of Languages: A Rudimentary Dictionary of Universal Philology, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

A frican, spoken by a small nation on the Gold-coast, about lat. 535 N., long. 012 W.; it is sometimes designated the GHAH or GA, and the people are supposed to have been removed by emigration from the interior. Ghana or Gana is a city, governed by a Sultaun, near the upper course of the Niger. Rask s Vejledning, 8vo, Copenhagen, 1828. See AQTJAPIM. ACHEMENIAN PERSIAN. The name of that form of the Old PERSIAN language which is used in the inscriptions of the A chasmenian kings, or the line of native monarchs which commenced with Cyrus the Great and terminated with Darius Codomannus, the antagonist of A lexander. The language is written in an arrow-headed or cuneiform character of a simple kind, and is closely akin to the Zend, Pazend, and the modern Persian. The best work on the language is that of Spiegel, A ltpersische Keilinschriften. G. R. ACHAGUA. A dialect of native S. A merican, vernacular on the R. Casanare, a tributary of the R. Orinoco ;and closely allied to MAIPUB. Mithridates, iii., p. 631. ACHASTLI. AMEBICAN :spoken on the coast of California between San Francisco and St. Diego. ACHINESE. A language of the MALAYAN family, spoken in the kingdom of Ache or A chin, the northernmost part of Sumatra. It is distinguished from all other Malay languages by having the accent on the terminal instead of the penultimate syllable, and by a good deal of monosyllables. It is at present very little known, but its presumed affinity to the monosyllabic languages of Asia renders its study highly interesting for investigating the origin of the Malay race. P. J. V. ACOMA. A dialect of native AMEEICAN, vernacular in New Mexico. It is one of the dialects spoken by the Pueblo Indians on the R. Grande. It is also called LAGUNA. ACROA-MERIM. American :a dialect of the GEZ class, vernacular in Brazil. See Von Martius, vol. ii., p. 144. ADAIHE Or ADAIHI. A very isolated la
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