Esitako

African: a dialect of Nufi . Eskelen or Eslenes . American : vernacular in U. California. See Vocaby. in “Tr. Am. Ethnol. Soc.,” vol. ii., p. 127. Esquimaux or Eskimo . The language of a people so called, dispersed along the polar regions of N. America from the Atlantic to the Pacific; it is allied to many other native American dialects, but with decided affinities to the languages of N.E. America. This people call themselves “Innuit,” i.e. , “the people”; Eskimo is the Danish, Esquimaux the French form of the same word. See Kleinschmidt: “Grammatik,” Berlin, 1851; Vocaby., “Amer. Ethnol.,” vol. ii., p. 78. ☞