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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)