Alaska Native Language Archive

Resource Details

Identifier:

CE772P1780

Title

Specimen of the Aleutian language.

Description:

(1) 12 nouns and numerals 1-10, most probably (Bergsland 1959b) taken by Pallas, perhaps from Dmitri Bragin at Irkutsk in March 1772 (2 or 3 items evidently from Glotov in J. L. S.), with remark that the language is different from Koryak, Kamchadal; (2) 9 nouns, 2 not in (1), and numerals 1-10, compared with Greenlandic and (Canadian) Eskimo; (3) English translation of (2). Ainu cf. AL 772 P1777.

Comments

Also in collection, 2 pp. notes by M. Krauss.; 1 p. typescript from Adelung's ms. in the Lenin Library with the Pallas word list; 2 pp. photocopy of ms. - Adelung?; 1 p. source unknown with selection about Pallas and the origin of the word list.

Contributors

Pallas, Peter Simon (author)

Date

//1780

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Subject Language(s)

Comparative Eskimo-Aleut

LingType

lexicon

Files:

CE772P1780.pdf

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