A grammatical sketch of the language spoken by the Indians of the Mosquito shore.

Abstract:

Article published by Alexander I. Cotheal in volume 2 of the Transactions of the American Ethnological Society (New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1848), which has been removed from the publication by C. Hermann Berendt, and bound as a separate booklet. It includes introductory remarks about the Indians of the Mosquito shore (p. 237-239); a description of the alphabet and pronunciation (p. 239-240) and grammar (p. 240-256) of the Miskito language; the Lord's prayer and introduction to the Ten commandments (Exodus 20: 1-3) in Miskito, with literal interlinear translation in English (p. 257); and Miskito-English vocabulary (p. 257-264), including a separate list (p. 263-264) arranged in the order of Albert Gallatin's Comparative vocabulary of fifty-three nations, published in the second volume of the Archealogia Americana. At the end, Cotheal mentions having recently become aware of the report on the Mosquito shore of a Prussian commission (A. M. Fellechner, Müller, and Hesse, Bericht über die im höchsten Auftrage ...., 1845), and lists bibliographical references from that work (p. 264). A few pencilled annotations by Berendt include 2 notations concerning vocabulary entries (p. 262, 263); and the remaining relating to his counting the number of vocabulary entries in the primary list, totaling 796 (p. 262), and in the list according to Gallatin, totalling 142 (p. 264).

Creator:

Cotheal, Alexander I., 1804-1894.

Timespan:

Honduras.; Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras); Honduras; Nicaragua; Nicaragua.

Date:

1851

Identifier:

9946867973503681; (OCoLC)ocn503330095; (OCoLC)503330095; (PU)4686797-penndb-Voyager

Language:

English; Central American Indian languages

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on the verso of front free endpaper in the bound volume that once contained the present item).

Publisher:

[between 1851 and 1878]

Relation:

Lord's prayer.; Miskito.

Subject:

Miskito language -- Grammar.; Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Languages.; Miskito language -- Pronunciation.; Miskito language -- Texts.; Indians of Central America -- Honduras -- Languages.; Indians of Central America.; Language and languages.; Miskito language.; Grammar.; Miskito language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Glossaries.; Grammars (instructional materials); Texts.; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Controlled vocabularies.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

15 leaves : paper; 205 x 130 mm bound to 205 x 130 mm

Personal Name:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Rights:

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Notes:

Ms. codex.; Origin: Annotated and bound as a booklet by C. Hermann Berendt sometime between the beginning of his research in the Americas in 1851 and his death in 1878.; Title from title page (p. 235).; This was the fourth of 19 manuscripts formerly bound together, probably by Daniel Garrison Brinton, and now disbound (Items 129-136, 143, 145, 146, 151-155, and 157-159). The bound volume had the spine title: Languages of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.; Binding: Contemporary paper covers; sewn.; Pagination: Paper, ii + 15 + ii leaves; [235-237], 238-264; printed pagination, upper outer corners.; English and Miskito.

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 700

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection.