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Taino materials, American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection

Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Language:Coptic | English | Taino | Berber
Date:1825
Contributor:Izard, George
Subject:Haiti--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:3 pages
Description: The Taino materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as item 25, Rafinesque's "Vocabulary of the extinct Haytian or Taino language," comparing Taino to Old World languages (Berber, Cantabrian, Celtic, Coptic, etc.)
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)

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Taino materials, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology

Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Language:Taino | English | Berber | Mayan (macrolanguage)
Date:1825
Contributor:Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:Documents
Description: Comparative list of 40 words (following Spanish orthography), by means of which the author asserts a relationship with the Berber and other African languages, as well as with the Maya and other Central American languages. His sources are Columbus, D'Anghiera, Herrera, Edwards.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)

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