Author: Richard W. CummingsPublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Cummings' Vocabulary of Delaware
Author: Richard W. CummingsPublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Denny's Vocabulary of Shawnee
Author: Ebenezer DennyPublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758655
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
This vocabulary is a substantial collection of 404 Shawnee words and phrases collected by Major Ebenezer Denny in January of 1786. It was compiled from Shawnees assembled for treaty at Fort Finney, located along the Great Miami River in the southwestern corner of Ohio, mostly from a woman called "the Grenadier Squaw".
A Vocabulary of Roanoke
Author: Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758817
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot
Author: John Dyneley PrincePublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758647
Category : Mohegan language
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Mohegan-Pequot was an Eastern Algonquian language originally spoken in southeastern Connecticut along the Thames River. It became extinct in the early 20th century. This vocabulary contains 446 words collected in 1903 by J. Dyneley Prince and Frank Speck from Fidelia Fielding, a resident of Mohegan, Connecticut and the last native speaker of the dialect; with 12 additional words from the Brothertown reservation in Wisconsin. It features etymological and comparative linguistic commentary for each term by Prince and Speck.
A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect
Author: William Vans MurrayPublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This volume contains a list of some 300 words collected by Murray in 1796 along the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It further contains introductory remarks and annotation by linguist Daniel G. Brinton, who provides words for comparison in a number of other Algonquin languages including Lenape and Chipeway. This edition features an indexed listing of Brinton's Algonquin comparisons in the appendix.
A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon
Author: Thomas Campanius HolmPublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758639
Category : Unami jargon
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
From Campanius' Vocabularium Barbaro-Virgineorum, this volume features a vocabulary of the Unami traders' jargon of Lenape-Delaware used along the lower Delaware River, with over 500 entries plus dialogues and speeches recorded in the 1640s. It follows theedition translated by Peter S. Duponceau in 1834. Also included in this volume is William Penn's word-list of the Pennsylvania Indians, which lists 17 words in the jargon.
The Tutelo Language
Author: Horatio HalePublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The most significant treatment of the language(s) spoken by the Siouan tribes of Virginia is the 1883 article "The Tutelo Tribe and Language" by Horatio Hale. Hale includes a substantial 279 word vocabulary, as well as numerous grammatical tables with explanations, mostly gathered from an elderly Tutelo called Nikonha. This edition includes all the Tutelo grammatical material printed by Hale, and organizes the vocabulary into bidirectional English-Tutelo and a new Tutelo-English section.
A Dictionary of Powhatan
Author: Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758620
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This volume represents the largest vocabulary ever collected of Powhatan -- approximately 1,000 entries compiled by William Strachey around 1612. This edition is based on Major's 1849 printing of the British Museum manuscript, with variant forms and extra words cited from the Bodleian manuscript. Two supplementary word-lists of Virginia Algonquian are also included: nine words from an anonymous relation of 1607 attributed to Gabriel Archer, and 29 words from Robert Beverley's 1705 History and Present State of Virginia. This edition also features an introduction by Powhatan scholar Frederic Gleach.
An Ancient New Jersey Indian Jargon
Author: J. Dyneley PrincePublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
From an anonymous manuscript entitled the "Indian Interpreter" found in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, New Jersey, this 261 word vocabulary was taken from Salem County, NJ and is dated to 1684. This version is reprinted from a 1904 article edited by J. Dyneley Prince, who provides detailed explanations of the words and comparisons with other Delaware/Lenape vocabularies. Also includes Gabriel Thomas' Discourses in the Delaware jargon (41 entries), and new to this expanded edition are 23 terms from Peter Lindeström's Geographia Americae.
Author: HERMAN E. LUDEWIG