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Dr B. S. Barton sN ew Views of theO rigin of the Tribes and Nations of A merica. The object of the learned author at first was to supply the deficiency of the great philological monument which the empress Catharine had begun as far as related to the languages of A merica. Happy would it have been if he had not suffered his imagination to draw him away from that simple but highly useful design !B ut he conceived that by comparing the American with the Asiatic languages he could prove the origin of our Indians from the nations which inhabit the opposite coast of A sia; and thus he sacrificed the real advantage of science to the pursuit of a favourite theory. He has nevertheless brought together, in a comparative view, fifty-two select words in about thirty or forty of our aboriginal idioms; by which,he has shewn, that he might, if he pleased, have completed professor Pallas sV ocabulary, as far as it could have been done at that period, when we had not the means that have been obtained since. His was the first attempt to collect and compare to some extent specimens of our Indian lanlas had given the corresponding terms in the African and American languages. But M. Jankiewitsch took upon himself to alter the whole plan of Pallas swork, and, instead of pursuing the original system, which was to give the sameR ussian word in the different languages in due succession, he made an alphabetical catalogue of exotic wordsi which he explained into Russian, and in which he mixed all nations and languages together, with a view to shew how the same sounds received different meanings in different idioms. The empress was displeased, and the edition was suppressed. A few copies, however, have gone abroad, one of which is in the library of the American Philosophical Society. M. Jankiewitch did wrong in not following the plan of his predecessor, whose work he thus left incomple
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  • ÉditeurNabu Press
  • Date d'édition2011
  • ISBN 10 1178824535
  • ISBN 13 9781178824537
  • ReliurePaperback
  • Nombre de pages200

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