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Reisen einiger Missionarien der Gesellschaft Jesu in America. Aus ihren eigenen Aufsätzem jerausgegeben von Christoph Gottlieb von Murr.
Nürnberg: Johann Eberhard Zeh, 1785
Physical Description:
Call number: JA785/ M979r
Accession number: 08664
Notes: Contains grammatical study of Tamanaco (Mapoyo) language, including vocabulary (p. 348: a dozen nouns listed in German, Tamanakisch, and Maypurisch) and verb paradigms (p. 375-384). “Entwurf der Maypurer Sprache” (p. 389-397) includes: brief vocabulary comparisons of (1) Caribisch, Payurisch, Tamanakisch, and Avarikottisch and (2) Maypurisch, Guipunavisch, and Caverisch (p. 393); a list of languages related to Carib/Galibi (p. 395); “Maypurischer Unterricht von der Erschassung der Welt” and “Il medesimo Ragionamento in Tamanaco”, with literal Italian translations on facing pages (p. 397-399), and “Verzeichnis einiger Wörter in fünf Hauptsprachen des Orinoko, woraus man ihren Unterschied erzehen kann” (p. 402), listing 15 German words with equivalents in 5 languages: Salivisch, Jarurisch, Tamanakisch, Maypurisch, Ottomakisch. Also contains: “De lingua Haitina”, listing 100 terms with Latin equivalents (p. 403-408); “De lingua Mexicana”, listing 100 terms with Latin equivalents, as well as numbers through 1000 (p. 409-412), followed by a list of Mexican languages and dialects, bibliographical sources, and notes on various parts of speech (p. 413-418); “De lingua generali, vulgo dicta: del Ynga”, including grammatical notes in Latin (p. 418-427), numerals through 1000 (p. 427-428), the Lord’s Prayer followed by word-by-word analysis in Latin (p. 428-432), “Vocabularium linguae regiae peruanae, vulgo dictae: del Ynga”, listing 240 [Quechua] terms with Latin glosses and notes on usage (p. 432-441), and “Specimina Bacmeisteriana” (p. 441-450), comprising 23 paragraphs, each an analysis in Latin based on a sample phrase or set of related phrases in “Ynga”.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Arawakan languages / Carib / Maipure / Nahuatl / Otomaco / Quechua / Taino
Genre: Grammar / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: Brazil / Caribbean Islands / Spanish America
