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1Author:  Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844Requires cookie*
 Title:  Essai de solution du problème philologique proposé en l'année 1823 par la commission de l'Institut de France, 1823     
 Dates:  1823 
 Abstract:  The Essai de Solution ... is part of the Stephen Du Poneau Collection. The collection as a whole has a wide array of material, although it is particularly strong in of Native American language material from the nineteenth century. This essay was likely submitted for the Volney Prize in linguistics and reflects Du Ponceau's interests in language more generally.

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 Call #:  Mss.410.D92.1 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America | Language and Linguistics 
 Genre:  Foreign Language | Language Material | Manuscript Essays 
 Subjects:  Linguistics. | Philology. 
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 Title:  Arawak manuscripts     
 Dates:  1803 
 Abstract:  This large volume contains German to Lokono dictionary. Theodor Schulz, a German Moravian missionary to British Guiana, compiled the dictionary in the nineteenth century and sent it to the APS.

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 Call #:  Mss.498.3.Sch8 
 Extent:  0.3 Linear Feet 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America | Language and Linguistics | Native America 
 Genre:  Language Material | Native American Materials 
 Subjects:  Arawak language | Arawak language -- Dictionaries -- German | Indians of South America -- Languages | Linguistics | Moravians -- Missions