I could not talk anything but English, and the girl knew nothing but Greek, or Armenian, or some such barbarous tongue, but we got along very well.

"How well you express yourself in our barbarous tongue, M. le General!"

A slave near the front called out something in a barbarous tongue.

It employs a jangling, barbarous tongue of its own.

I did so, and he instantly, and with every mark of fervour, addressed me a long speech in some unknown and barbarous tongue.

You speak a strange and barbarous tongue, old man, and yet, here is a mystery, for I know it.

He ground his great teeth together, raved, stamped, and swore in barbarous tongues and with barbarous imagery.

Procopius wrote that the Antes and the Slaveni spoke "the same language, an utterly barbarous tongue".

The sound of that barbarous tongue would wilt me on the spot.

Nor is it needful, Allan, since if I caught the meaning of that barbarous tongue you use aright, you have told him already.