Lappish

Lappish
Lappish Lap"pish, a. Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish. -- n. The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language. [1913 Webster]

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