Chagos

American: dialect of Auraucanian , vernacular in a small archipelago off Chili. Chaldee or Chaldaic . An extinct language of Semitic origin, generally supposed to be Hebrew , modified by intercourse with the Babylonians. It is a name given to a dialect of Aramaic written in characters of square Hebrew, as found in the Books of Ezra and Daniel. Lexicons by Buxtorff and Levy. ⁂ Properly the language of the Babylonians during the period of their empire, but the name is given to the dialect current among later Jews.     G. R.   ☞