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Henri Coudreau (1859-1899) was one of the greatest explorers of the
nineteenth century. This 1892 book, containing vocabulary lists for
four Amazonian indigenous languages, derives from his three
expeditions to French Guyana described in La France Equinoxale
(1887, also reissued in this series) and Chez nos Indiens (1892).
Three of the languages belong to the Carib family, while the
fourth, Emerillon is a Guarani-Tupi language. Coudreau's word
lists, each organised by topics and grammatical categories, and
subdivided partly alphabetically and partly by semantic field,
represented a huge advance on previous publications on these
languages, both in terms of quantity and in terms of syntactic data
(examples of different persons and tenses). Dialect variation is
also recorded in the case of Ouayana (Wayana) and Oyampi, which
Coudreau encountered in two different areas. Coudreau's record
remains a valuable resource for scholars of Native American
languages and their history.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
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