A Vocabulary of Roanoke
Author :
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1889758817
A Vocabulary of Roanoke
Author : Thomas Harriot
Publisher : Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Book Description
A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon
Author : Thomas Campanius Holm
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Unami jargon
ISBN : 1889758639
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.
A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect
Author : William Vans Murray
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1889758612
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.
The Tutelo Language
Author : Horatio Hale
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
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 Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot
Author : John Dyneley Prince
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Mohegan language
ISBN : 1889758647
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 Etchemin
Author : James Rosier
Publisher : Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Book Description
Contains extracts from Rosier's 1605 "A true relation," and the Etchemin numbers from 1-10 recorded by Marc Lescarbot in his "History of New France" (1618).
A Dictionary of Powhatan
Author :
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1889758620
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.
Cummings' Vocabulary of Delaware
Author : Richard W. Cummings
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category :
ISBN : 1889758825
Book Description
A Vocabulary of the Souriquois Jargon
Author : Marc Lescarbot
Publisher : Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Book Description
"Extracted from: The History of New France (1618) / Marc Lescarbot; W.L. Grant, translator. 3 vols. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1907-1914; and The Jesuit relations and allied documents: travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 / Reuben Gold Thwaites, editor. 73 vols. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901."--T.p. verso.
