South America materials, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology

Language: English | French
Date: 1815-1834
Contributor: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835 | Laet, Johannes de
Subject: Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Notebooks
Extent: 9 notebooks
Description: Includes Lengua del Chile, extracted from Molina (1788). Notes, vocabulary, and comparisons from De Laet (1633) on languages of Guiana. Discussion of 184 dialects found in the Orinoco region, extracted from Humboldt (1814).
Collection: Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology Mss.410.D92