KIUNKANI LANGUAGE

[s. 393] : A dialect of the Marathi, which belongs to the Indie branch of the Aryan family of languages. It is spoken by about 1,000,000 people of the Bombay Presidency living in the region between the Western Ghats It of India and the shore of the Arabian Sea. is written with the Marathi or Modhi characters. KLEIN POPO. See Little Popo. KLEINSCHMIDT, J. C. One of the first mis: sionaries of the Moravian Church to Green land. He went to Lichtenau, about 40 miles from the Danish colony, Juliannehaapt, in 1777. After Kleinschmidt had worked in Green land nineteen years he visited Europe, and after his return he completed the translation of the New Testament All the mi ionaries joined in in June, 1821. revising it, and it was sent to the British and Foreign Bible Society. 393