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Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
San Felipe includes: Katishtya, Keres
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language:English
Date:1801-1843
Subject:Linguistics | Philology
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:33 items
Description: Correspondence, largely from Peter S. du Ponceau to Albert Gallatin, regarding legal and political matters, Indian languages and linguistics, philological matters, and the American Philosophical Society. Specific topics include exchanges of publications and manuscripts between the two men; the creation of a map of Indian languages; the government's collecting of Indian vocabularies and du Ponceau's refusal to supply Historical and Literary Committee material to the government, believing that the committee rather than the government should undertake the collection and publication of Indian materials; methods of seeking data on languages, and the difficulties of sentence for testing problems of comparative Vocabularies;s both already published and in progess, such as Eliot's Grammar, Barton (1797), Pickering (1820), Hodgson on the Berber, Najera (1837), Zeisberger (1830), Gallatin (1836), Prichard (1813), several of du Ponceau's works, etc.; du Ponceau's acceptance of copies of Gallatin's Synopsis, with a jab at its Worcester (rather than APS) the fate of the manuscript for du Ponceau's prize essay: the printer bankrupt, difficulties in getting manuscript returned, and du Ponceau has no full copy; of du Ponceau's study of Chinese;s and the Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee; du Ponceau's acceptance of vocabularies on behalf of the the state of European linguistics; Pickering's alphabet for Indian languages; Carib women's vs. men's the opposition founding of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and du Ponceau's efforts to make peace by submitting his translation of Vater's Enquiry for them to publish; illnesses and deaths in du Ponceau's family; and du Ponceau's age, health, and failing eyesight. Other individuals mentioned include Franklin, Rush, Rittenhouse, Jefferson, Cass, Schoolcraft, Long, Ebeling, Adelung, Klaproth, Balbi, Humboldt, Volney, and Heckewelder. Originals at the New York Historical Society.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau letters, 1801-1843, to Albert Gallatin (Mss.Film.541)
Culture:
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Date:1939-1940
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Hockett, Charles Francis | Lathrop, Maxwell D. | Leon, Adrian F. | Quintana, Frances Leon | Swadesh, Frances | Velásquez Gallardo, Pablo
Subject:Agriculture | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Interviews | Vocabularies
Extent:5 notebooks, 26 loose pages, 1000 slips
Description: The Tarascan materials in the ACLS collection consists of items found in the "Tarascan" section of the finding aid. "Tarascan ethnologic and linguistic notes" (item Ta.2) contains linguistic forms, terms for parents, vocabulary of 600 items, list of names of natural and cultural objects, and interviews and material on land division and agriculture. There is also a Purépecha-Spanish lexical file of over 1000 word slips (item Ta.1), plus brief additional writings (items Ta.3 and Ta.4), including a handbook for writing the language. In the “Mexico” section of the finding aid, see “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Purépecha vocabulary.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Mention in extract from Clavigero (1787).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1819-1859
Contributor:Browne, Peter A. (Peter Arrell), 1782-1860 | Curson, S. (?) | Bloomfield, Joseph E. | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Antiquities | Linguistics | Pottery | Material culture | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Essays
Extent:5 items
Description: Items relating to Quechua materials. Items include Peter A. Browne's letter regarding microscopic examination of hair of ancient Peruvians and modern Indians; S. Curson's report concerning Arequipa, Peru, including a climb of Mount Yachi, Quechua concepts of oxygen deficiency, and local Indians' attitude toward revelation of mine locations; Joseph E. Bloomfield's letter to John Vaughan concerning Peruvian vases taken from Temple of the Sun by Pizarro's men, received in Spain and now deposited with the American Philosophical Society for inspection; Samuel G. Morton's letter to Vaughan regarding a collection of antique Peruvian vessels "from ruins near Truxillo" deposited in his care for the APS by Marmaduke Burrough (a memoir by Dr. Burrough to follow); and Peter S. du Ponceau's letter to Johann S. Vater concerning Indian languages, especially those of Peru, requesting Vater's addenda so Du Ponceau can publish a translation of Vater's book, and information received from Don Pedro Perez, half-breed Quechua, regarding the "I am that I am" problem in linguistics, and regarding Basque and South American-Malay comparisons.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:French
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Brief comment, La langue du Perou; extract.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1818-1850
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Ferris, Benjamin | Strong, Nathaniel T.
Subject:New York (State)--History | Pennsylvania--History | Missions | Diplomacy | Iroquoian languages | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Letters regarding Seneca materials. Topics include Quakers' work with Indians, particularly Mrs. Deborah Logan's references to Quaker work at Allegany and to records at half-yearly meeting; Nathaniel T. Strong's return of a borrowed book along with his offer to send copies of all books published in the Seneca language to the American Philosophical Society and his mention of a visit of chiefs to Washington; and Benjamin Ferris' offer of 7 works, 1846-1850, principally accounts of Quaker missionary activity at Cattaraugus and Buffalo Creek, among the New York Senecas.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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)
Culture:
Language:English | Mapuche | Quechua | Poqomam | Carib | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Wampanoag | Wyandot
Date:1822
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)
Culture:
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Notes, comparisons of Jajois with Shibajois (Sappaio) and Carib, taken from De Laet (1633). Mention of Yaoi in extract from Humboldt (1814).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Language:English
Date:September 21, 1822; November 22, 1895
Subject:Linguistics | Brazil--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter from September 21, 1822 to Johann S. Vater, thanking Vater for has received his Brasilian catechism. Forwards publication and manuscript copy of Sagard's Huron vocabulary. Letter from November 22, 1895 to George Henry Horn, written from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Notice of having sent a manuscript, "Jasper and Stalagmite Quarried by Indians in the Wyandotte Cave." See also Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 34 (1895): 396-400.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)