A Vocabulary of Powhatan

A Vocabulary of Powhatan
Title A Vocabulary of Powhatan PDF eBook
Author John Smith
Publisher Evolution Publishing
Pages 45
Release 2020-04-25
Genre History
ISBN 0964423472

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This vocabulary contains 109 entries in the Powhatan language of Virginia as collected on the 1606 voyage of Capt. John Smith. Alsoincludes word-lists from two otherwise unattested Virginia languages: 17 words of King William County Pamunkey collected in 1858, and six words of Nansemond collected from the last living speaker in 1907. This edition also features an introduction by Powhatan scholar Frederic Gleach.

A Dictionary of Powhatan

A Dictionary of Powhatan
Title A Dictionary of Powhatan PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Arx Publishing, LLC
Pages 115
Release 2005-06
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1889758620

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This volume represents the largest vocabulary ever collected of Powhatan -- approximately 1,000 entries compiled by William Strachey around 1612. This edition is based on Major's 1849 printing of the British Museum manuscript, with variant forms and extra words cited from the Bodleian manuscript. Two supplementary word-lists of Virginia Algonquian are also included: nine words from an anonymous relation of 1607 attributed to Gabriel Archer, and 29 words from Robert Beverley's 1705 History and Present State of Virginia. This edition also features an introduction by Powhatan scholar Frederic Gleach.

A Vocabulary of Powhatan

A Vocabulary of Powhatan
Title A Vocabulary of Powhatan PDF eBook
Author John Smith
Publisher Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing
Pages 48
Release 2021-04-19
Genre
ISBN 9781935228226

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This vocabulary contains 109 entries in the Powhatan language of Virginia as collected on the 1606 voyage of Capt. John Smith. Alsoincludes word\-lists from two otherwise unattested Virginia languages: 17 words of King William County Pamunkey collected in 1858, and six words of Nansemond collected from the last living speaker in 1907. This edition also features an introduction by Powhatan scholar Frederic Gleach.

A Vocabulary of Roanoke

A Vocabulary of Roanoke
Title A Vocabulary of Roanoke PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Arx Publishing, LLC
Pages 63
Release 2006-08
Genre Reference
ISBN 1889758817

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A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect

A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect
Title A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect PDF eBook
Author William Vans Murray
Publisher Arx Publishing, LLC
Pages 46
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN 1889758612

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This volume contains a list of some 300 words collected by Murray in 1796 along the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It further contains introductory remarks and annotation by linguist Daniel G. Brinton, who provides words for comparison in a number of other Algonquin languages including Lenape and Chipeway. This edition features an indexed listing of Brinton's Algonquin comparisons in the appendix.

A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon

A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon
Title A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon PDF eBook
Author Thomas Campanius Holm
Publisher Arx Publishing, LLC
Pages 75
Release 2005-06
Genre Unami jargon
ISBN 1889758639

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From Campanius' Vocabularium Barbaro-Virgineorum, this volume features a vocabulary of the Unami traders' jargon of Lenape-Delaware used along the lower Delaware River, with over 500 entries plus dialogues and speeches recorded in the 1640s. It follows theedition translated by Peter S. Duponceau in 1834. Also included in this volume is William Penn's word-list of the Pennsylvania Indians, which lists 17 words in the jargon.

A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot

A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot
Title A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot PDF eBook
Author John Dyneley Prince
Publisher Arx Publishing, LLC
Pages 89
Release 2005-06
Genre Mohegan language
ISBN 1889758647

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Mohegan-Pequot was an Eastern Algonquian language originally spoken in southeastern Connecticut along the Thames River. It became extinct in the early 20th century. This vocabulary contains 446 words collected in 1903 by J. Dyneley Prince and Frank Speck from Fidelia Fielding, a resident of Mohegan, Connecticut and the last native speaker of the dialect; with 12 additional words from the Brothertown reservation in Wisconsin. It features etymological and comparative linguistic commentary for each term by Prince and Speck.