| Description: | | Vol. I (1806), p. 567, short Aleut vocabulary, remarks on relation to other languages; Vol. III, part 2, pp. 339-343 ff., discussion of Asian-American language realtions, including comparative vocabulary of Greenlandic, Canadian, Chugach, Koniag, Siberian Yupik, Aleut; Vol. III, part 3, pp. 425-467, general description of Eskimo language family (425-430), Eastern branch (430-455), Western branch (456-469) (includes data from Pallas, Davydov, Rezanov, Robeck, Sauer, Merck); comparative table of Norton Sound, Kodiak, Chugach, and Siberian Yupik; Vol. IV, pp. 248-255, discussion including comparative vocabulary (30 words + 10 numerals, Siberian Yupik, Aleut, Kodiak, Tlingit, Canadian, Greenlandic, and brief Koniag and Unalaska vocabularies for Lords Prayer from speakers in St. Petersburg. |
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