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Journal historique du voyage.
Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1790
Physical Description: 2 v. : folded ill., 2 folded maps, music ; 21 cm. (8vo) v.1: [6], vii, [1], 280 p. ; v.2: [4], 380, vi, [2] p., 3 folded leaves of plates
Call number: E790/ L639j
Accession number: 32169; 32170
Notes: Contains: “Daria”, a brief song in the Kamchadal language with musical notation provided (v. 1, p. 102); “Vocabulaire des langues kamtschadale, koriaque, tchouktchi et lamoute”, in six columns on facing pages, listing approximately 250 French terms with equivalents in these four languages as well as Russian (v. 2, p. [355]-375), including numerals through 1000 (p. 372-375); “Vocabulaire de la langue kamtschadale, à St. Pierre & St. Paul & à Paratounka”, listing over 100 French terms with Russian and Kamchadal equivalents in three columns (v. 2, p. 376-380). “Quoique la langue qu’on parle dans ces deux endroits soit différente à Bolcheretsk, j’ai observéqu’on y comprenoit presque tous les mots de ce vocabulaire” (p. 376).
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Languages: Chukchi / Even [Lamut] / Kamchadal / Koryak
Genre: Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: North America
