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Early Fragments of Minsi Delaware

Early Fragments of Minsi Delaware

Paperback

Native American HistoryIndigenous Languages of the Americas

ISBN10: 1935228285
ISBN13: 9781935228288
Publisher: Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing
Published: Dec 31 2022
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This volume collects the earliest written examples of the Minsi dialect of Delaware or Lenape. The volume consists of Rev. John Heckewelder's Minsi vocabulary, collected in the late 1700s and totaling 100 entries. A collection of 80 words of the language compiled by scholar/president Thomas Jefferson is also included. Several scattered linguistic fragments collected from Minsi tribes such as the Manhattans and Hackensacks by Benjamin Smith Barton, David de Vries, Jasper Danckaerts, Adrian van der Donck, and others round out the volume.

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