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Mémoire sur la Louisiane, contenant la description du sol et des productions de cette île, et les moyens de la rendre florissante en peu de tems; avec un vocabulaire et un abrégé de la grammaire de la langue des sauvages.
Paris: J. M. Eberhart, 1803
Physical Description: [2], 67, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Call number: E763/ L651s/ v.29
Accession number: 01272
Notes: Contains "Petit dictionnaire de la langue des sauvages" (p. 47-67), predominantly taken from Lahontan, Nouveaux voyages de Mr Le Baron De Lahontan, dans l'Amerique septentrionale, The Hague, 1703 (v. 2: p. 200- 217), with a vocabulary of approximately 350 terms in French alphabetical order with equivalents in an Algonquian language spoken in Louisiana, followed by a brief discussion of verbs including paradigms; a paragraph on nouns and their plurals; and Algonquin terms for numbers 1-1000.
JCB Library copy bound as pamphlet no. 3 in Mélanges sur l'Amérique, v. 29.
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Languages: Algonquian languages
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: North America
