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A Mission Delaware Vocabulary

A Mission Delaware Vocabulary

Ettwein, John

Hardcover

Series: American Language Reprints Supplement

Indigenous Languages of the AmericasLinguistics

ISBN10: 1935228129
ISBN13: 9781935228127
Publisher: Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing
Published: Nov 1 2013
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Beginning in the mid eighteenth century, seven Moravian missionaries recorded extensive works in the Delaware or Lenape language. John Ettwein (1712-1802) was among the earliest. His most significant work is a long manuscript vocabulary of words and short phrases likely collected prior to the Revolutionary War. This manuscript, now kept in the Moravian Archives at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, preserves some rare lexical gems of the Lenape language that, absent Ettwein's endeavors, would have been lost to posterity. However, it was originally written in German and has never before been published.

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