Taino materials, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology
Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Language: Taino | English | Berber | Mayan (macrolanguage)
Date: 1825
Contributor: Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Subject: Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Notebooks
Extent: Documents
Description: Comparative list of 40 words (following Spanish orthography), by means of which the author asserts a relationship with the Berber and other African languages, as well as with the Maya and other Central American languages. His sources are Columbus, D'Anghiera, Herrera, Edwards.
Collection: Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology Mss.410.D92