A grammatical sketch of the language spoken by the Indians of the Mosquito shore [manuscript] [between 1851 and 1878]

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Cotheal, Alexander I., 1804-1894. A grammatical sketch of the language spoken by the Indians of the Mosquito shore [manuscript]

A grammatical sketch of the language spoken by the Indians of the Mosquito shore [manuscript] [between 1851 and 1878]

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Article published by Alexander I. Cotheal in volume 2 of the Transactions of the American Ethnological Society (New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1848), which has been removed from the publication by C. Hermann Berendt, and bound as a separate booklet. It includes introductory remarks about the Indians of the Mosquito shore (p. 237-239); a description of the alphabet and pronunciation (p. 239-240) and grammar (p. 240-256) of the Miskito language; the Lord's prayer and introduction to the Ten commandments (Exodus 20: 1-3) in Miskito, with literal interlinear translation in English (p. 257); and Miskito-English vocabulary (p. 257-264), including a separate list (p. 263-264) arranged in the order of Albert Gallatin's Comparative vocabulary of fifty-three nations, published in the second volume of the Archealogia Americana. At the end, Cotheal mentions having recently become aware of the report on the Mosquito shore of a Prussian commission (A. M. Fellechner, Müller, and Hesse, Bericht über die im höchsten Auftrage ...., 1845), and lists bibliographical references from that work (p. 264). A few pencilled annotations by Berendt include 2 notations concerning vocabulary entries (p. 262, 263); and the remaining relating to his counting the number of vocabulary entries in the primary list, totaling 796 (p. 262), and in the list according to Gallatin, totalling 142 (p. 264).

15 leaves : paper ; 205 x 130 mm. bound to 205 x 130 mm.

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