Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum
Culture:
Language: English | Mapuche | Quechua | Poqomam | Carib | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Wampanoag | Wyandot
Date: 1822
Contributor: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Reeland, Adriaan, 1676-1718
Subject: Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Vocabularies
Extent: 1 vol., 35 p.
Description: This manuscript copy contains dictionaries of nine vocabularies of Indigenous languages of the Americas, such as "Aztec" (Nahuatl), Algonkin, and Huron, and was taken from Reland's "Dissertationum miscellanearum pars tertia" (Utrecht, 1708). [Vocabularies compiled from printed sources, of South and North American languages: Brasilica (1590,1595,1648); Chilensis (1647); Peruana, Poconziae [or Poconomica, Guatemala and Honduras]; Caraibica [Antilles], 1658; Mexicana [Otomitica, Chontalica, Zoquina, Cascan, Niciecana, Chicemeca dialects mentioned]; Virginiana (1966 [Eliot] 1685 [Mather], Algonkina [1703 La Hontan] Huramica (German-Huron vocabulary not included; 1822.]
Collection: Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum Mss.498.R27