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- Title
A GLIMPSE AT THE BEGINNING OF LANGUAGE STUDIES ON THE NORTHWEST COAST: JOHANN CHRISTOPH ADELUNG'S MITHRIDATES ODER ALLGEMEINE SPRACHENKUNDE.
- Authors
Bland, Richard L.
- Abstract
In the late eighteenth century, the German scholar Johann Christoph Adelung published numerous works, including dictionaries, grammars, German style guides, and works on linguistics. His linguistic publications included many on native languages, the most notable of which was a three-volume work entitled Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde, published between 1806 and 1817. Included in Volume III was an examination of the languages along the Northwest Coast of North America, based primarily on word lists collected by explorers and traders who had visited the Northwest Coast. A translation of the Northwest Coast material is provided in recognition of its place as one of the initial studies of Northwest Coast languages. Included is the first publication of the Lord's Prayer in the Tlingit language.
- Subjects
NORTHWEST Coast of North America; LANGUAGE &; archaeology; FOREIGN language education; NATIVE language; LORD'S prayer; ADELUNG, Johann Christoph, 1732-1806; TLINGIT language
- Publication
Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 2014, Vol 48, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1538-2834
- Publication type
Article