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Histoire d'vn voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant... les meurs [sic] et façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains auec vn colloque de leur langage.
[La Rochelle]: Antoine Chuppin, 1578
Physical Description: [48], 424, [16] p. : ill. ; 17cm. (8vo)
Call number: E578/ L621h cop. 1 and 2
Accession number: 07523, 03385
Notes: Place of publication suggested by Alden.
The author gives an account of Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon's colony in Brazil and the Tupi Indians who inhabited the country.
There are certain variations in the text on p. [7], 1st count.
"Colloque de l'entree ou arriuee en la terre du Bresil entre les gens du pays nommez Tououpinambaoults, & Toupinenquin en langage sauuage & François", p. 340-377, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the French language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and French. There are also numerous words and phrases in the Tupi language scattered throughout the text.
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Languages: Tupi
Genre: Grammar / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: Brazil
