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Herrn Johann Anderson, I.V.D. und weiland ersten Bürgermeisters der Freyen Kayserl. Reichsstadt Hamburg, Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis.
Frankfurt and Leipzig: [s.n.], 1747
Physical Description: [32], 368, [8] p., [5] folded leaves of plates: ill., map; 18 cm. (8vo)
Call number: J747/ A547h
Accession number: 02514
Notes: Includes "Anhang" (p. 321-368) comprising vocabulary, grammar and Christian texts in Danish, German, and the (Inuit?) language of Greenland Eskimos. The “Dictionariolum” (p. 321-341) lists terms by topic or part of speech: nouns (religious terms, fire, air, water, weather, geology, flora, animals, birds and insects, fish, body parts, tools and clothing, household terms, travel by sea and land, writing, kinship, trade items); adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, numbers 1-21, and over 100 conversational phrases. Grammar section (p. 342-353), in German with Inuit (?) examples, covers verb forms, nouns and possessives, and comparative adjectives. Followed by the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, and other religous texts in Danish, German, and Inuit (?); and Genesis ch. 1, v.1-31 and the Annunciation from Luke 1.26ff in Inuit (?) only (p. 353-368).
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Inuit-Inupiaq
Genre: Bible selections / Catechisms and creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Arctic
