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Essay of a Delaware-Indian and English spelling-book, for the use of the schools of the Christian Indians on Muskingum River.
Philadelphia: Henry Miller, 1776
Physical Description: [2], 113, [1] p.; 17 cm. (8vo)
Call number: D776/ Z47e
Accession number: 07270
Notes: Brief remarks in English on orthography and phonetics (p. [2], 2-5) are followed by a dictionary (p. 5-98) listing approximately 5000 Delaware single-syllable words and “compound words”, arranged by number of syllables, with English equivalents. Also includes brief religious texts (Lord’s Prayer, Ten Commandments, excerpts from Matthew, Luke, and other Biblical texts and prayers) in Delaware, with English on facing pages (p. 102-113), and a list of Biblical and classical names with syllabic divisions (p. 98-101).
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Languages: Delaware
Genre: Bible selections / Catechisms and Creeds / Dictionary
Region: North America
