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Description des terres magellaniques et des pays adjacens.
Lausanne: Chez Jean-Pierre Heubach & Comp., 1787
Physical Description: 2 v. (v.1: 163, [1] p. ; v.2: 135 [1] p.) ; 13 cm. (16mo)
Call number: D787/ F193d1
Accession number: 02890
Notes: Chapter XXXIII, “Essai sur leur langage” (v. 2: p. 116-135), deals with the language of the Moluches, and includes grammatical observations, rules, and examples regarding nouns, pronouns, adverbs, and (primarily) verbs; vocabulary is included passim as well as in a list of over eighty terms with French equivalents. Also given are four specimens with parallel French translation: The sign of the cross, The beginning of the Lord's Prayer, The beginning of the Creed, & The beginning of the Doctrines. Included are a handful of comparisons with the language of the Huilliches. Translation, by Marc Théodore Bourrit, of: A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America. Hereford and London, 1774. Author’s name from Sabin and Backer-Sommervogel.
Languages: Mapuche
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
