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Untersuchungen über Amerika’s Bevölkerung aus dem alten Kontinente dem Herrn Kammerherrn Alexander von Humboldt gewidmet.
Leipzig: Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel colophon: Halle, gedruckt bei Johann Jacob Gebauer, 1810
Physical Description: xii, 211, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Call number: J810/ V343u
Accession number: 99-141
Notes: Includes comparative vocabularies of various Indian, Eurasian and European languages.
Page 23 includes a short comparative vocabulary of Algonquian and Irish Gaelic words.
Pages 47-55 include various words, linguistically compared, in the languages of Greenland, Poconchi, Carib, Tuscarora, Nahuatl, Ojibwa, Algonquian, Onondaga, Narragansett, Penobscot, Delaware, Acadian, Seneca, Brazilian, Chikasaw, Choctaw, and assorted Eurasian languages.
Page 145 includes a comparative vocabulary of Greek, Latin, and the language as it is spoken in Chile.
Pages 155-174 include various words, linguistically compared, in the languages of Quechua, Cora, Ojibwa, Awawak, Greenland, Tarasca, Nahuatl, Galibi, Aymara, Eskimo languages, Miami, Abipon, Wyandot, Pocochi, and various other European and African languages.
Pages 195-203 include words, linguistically compared, in the languages of Poconchi, Galibi, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, Ojibwa, Patagonia, Tarasca, Nahuatl, Carib, Greeland, Brazil, Kiriri, Delaware, Mixtec, Arawak, Abipon, Cora, Miami, Algonquian, Nootka, Wyandot, Tuscarora and various other languages.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Aleut / Algonquin / Arawakan languages / Aymara / Carib / Catawba / Cherokee / Chickasaw / Chiquito / Choctaw / Cochimi / Cora / Cree / Creek / Dakota / Delaware / Esselen [Ecclemach] / Guarani / Huastec / Illinois / Inuit-Inupiaq / Iroquois / Kariri / Koryak / Mahican / Maipure / Mapuche / Maya / Miami / Mixtec / Nahuatl / Nootka / Ojibwa / Onondaga / Otomi / Penobscot / Pima / Pokonchi / Potowatomi / Quechua / Seneca / Shawnee / Taino / Tarahumara / Totonac / Tuscarora / Woccon / Wyandot / Yaruro
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Arctic / Brasil / Caribbean Islands / North America / Spanish America
