Arawak manuscripts
Culture:
Lokono includes: Arawak
Date: 1803
Contributor: Schultz, Theodor
Subject: Astronomy | Guyana--History | Linguistics | Moravians | Suriname--History
Type: Text
Genre: Dictionaries | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent: 2 volumes, 795 p.
Description: Theodor Schultz was a Moravian missionary in British Guiana at the turn of the nineteenth century. This collection contains two items: "Aruwakkisch Deucthes Wörterbuch," a dictionary with German equivalents and examples, as well as alphabetical Arawak index, and "Grammatische Sätze von der Aruwakkischen Sprache," a grammatical treatise based upon a Latin model, with Latin terms used throughout, though most of the text is German.
Collection: Arawak manuscripts Mss.498.3.Sch8