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Language:Beothuk | English | Mi'kmaq | Ojibwe | Abenaki, Eastern | Abenaki, Western
Date:1915
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Newfoundland--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:5 pages
Description: The Beothuk materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Algonkian" section of the finding aid, entitled "Beothuk-Algonkian comparisons" (item Be.1). This document was prepared for Sapir, copied from Rev. John Leigh's transcription of John Peyton's vocabulary. It compares 45 Beothuk items with Montagnais and Penobscot as well as isolated Micmac, Ojibwe, and Abenaki equivalents.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Mi'kmaq | Innu-aimun | Naskapi
Date:1797
Contributor:Pierronet, Thomas | Gabriel
Subject:Picture-writing | Orthography and spelling | Religion | Quebec--History | Newfoundland--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Vocabularies | Pictographs | Prayers | Sketches
Extent:41 pages
Description: This is a comparative vocabulary of the Mi'kmaq (Micmac), Innu-aimun (Montagnais, "Mountaineer"), and Naskapi ("Skoffie") languages. It includes Mi'kmaq prayers and a dictionary of Mi'kmaq pictographs. The latter includes 288 ink sketch pictographs of the Mi'kmaq language presented by Gabriel, an Innu man ("Mountaineer Indian,") and transcribed by Thomas Pierronet in 1797. Includes three Christian prayers in pictorial sentences.
Collection:Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages, 1797 (Mss.497.3.P61s)