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Orientalisch- und occidentalischer Sprachmeister, welcher nicht allein hundert Alphabete nebst ihrer Aussprache, so bey denen meisten europäisch- asiatisch- africanisch- und americanischen Völckern und Nationen gebräuchlich sind.
Leipzig: Christian Friedrich Gessnern, 1748
Physical Description: [20], 219, [5], 128, [16] p., [30], i-iii, v-x leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Call number: J743/ F919n
Accession number: 32983
Notes: Contains the Lord's prayer in some 200 languages, including 8 spoken in the Americas: "Mexicana," “Poconchica," “Carabaica," "Savanahica," "Virginiana," [DJS: =Mass?], "Mohogica," "Karirica," "Guarinica sive Brasilica" (p. 124-127, fourth count).
Author’s name from Sabin, who gives credit for the compilation of the text to Johann Friedrich Fritz. The first part contains some contributions by Benjamin Schultze.
JCB copy bound with author’s Neu eröffnetes in hundert Sprachen bestehendes A,b,c, order Gründliche Anweisung (Leipzig, 1743).
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Cariban / Delaware / Guarani / Kariri / Nahuatl / Pokonchi
Genre: Specimen
Region: Brazil / Caribbean Islands / North America / Spanish America
