| 1 | Author: | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1959 | |
| Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent University | |||
| Title: | Ethiopic and Cherokee Syllabaries -- A Case of Parallelism | ||
| Type: | Text items | ||
| Format: | Manuscripts | ||
| Language: | Ethiopic | Cherokee | ||
| Dates: | n.d. | ||
| Extent: | 8 leaves | ||
| Abstract: | A formal paper with manuscript corrections. The author finds the syllabaries similar in principle, but different in intent; the Ethiopic is a complication of the Minaeo-Sabaean, while the Cherokee is an attempt at simplification. Phonetic equivalences of the two syllabaries are arranged tabularly at the end | ||
| Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, I2.1) | ||
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| Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | ||
