A grammar of the language of the Lenni Lennape, or Delaware Indians, [1816].

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A grammar of the language of the Lenni Lennape, or Delaware Indians, [1816].

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This volume was translated from the original German into English by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau in 1816. It is a description of the Delaware language and lists words and their corresponding meanings.

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