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Des berühmten Herrn Baron de Lahontan neueste Reisen nach Nord-Indien, oder dem mitternächtischen America mit vielen besondern und bey keinem Scribentem befindlichen Curiositaeten. Aus dem Frantzösischen übersetzet von M. Vischer.
Hamburg and Leipzig: Reumannischen Verlag, 1709
Physical Description: 12, 459, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 14 cm. (12mo)
Call number: E709/ L184d
Accession number: 02588
Notes: Contains "Anhang eines Wörter-Buchs von der Wilden Sprache" (p. 433-454), beginning with brief remarks on the Huron / Wyandot and Algonquin languages (p. 433-436). A list of over 300 Algonquin terms with German equivalents (p. 436-449), following the word order of the French editions, is followed by: sample verb paradigms and brief notes on noun declensions (p. 449-450); numerals (p. 450-451); notes on phonetics (p. 451-452); and 50 Wyandot terms with German equivalents, again following the word order of the French editions (p. 453-454). Also contains “Lista der wilden Nationen in Canada mit ihren üblichen Sprachen” (p. 287-289), a contemporary classification of Indian nations and languages in the regions regions of Acadia, the Saint Lawrence River to Montreal, Lake Huron, Lake Illinois, Lake Frontenac, the Outaoua River, Lakes Superior and Huron, Hudson Bay, and north of the Mississippi. A translation and abridgment of author's Nouveaux voyages, first published The Hague, 1703.
Languages: Algonquin / Wyandot
Genre: Grammar / Vocablary
Region: North America
