Bibliography of the Eskimo Language (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

James Constantine Pilling

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330686241 ISBN 13 : 9781330686249

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

North American languages, and in the course of his work visited the principal public and private libraries of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico; carried on an extensive correspondence with librarians, missionaries, and generally with persons interested in the subject, and examined such printed authorities as were at hand. The results of these researches were embodied in a volume of which a limited number of copies were printed and distributed an authors catalogue which included all the material at that time in his possession.1 Since its issue he has had an opportunity to visit the national libraries of England and France, as well as a number of private ones in both these countries, and a sufficient amount of new material has been collected to lead to the belief that a fairly complete catalogue of the works relating to each of the more important linguistic stocks of North America may be prepared. The first of such catalogues is the present; the second, which it is hoped to issue shortly, will be the Siouau. The people speaking the Eskimo language are more widely scattered, and, with perhaps two or three exceptions, cover a wider range ofter ritory than those of any other of the linguistic stocks of North A merica. From Labrador, on the east, their habitations dot the coast line to the Aleutian I slands, on the west, and a dialect of the language is spoken on the coast of Northeastern A sia. As far north as the white man has gone remains of their deserted habitations are found, and southward they extend, on the east coast to latitude 50 and on the west coast to latitude 60 .TV ithiii this area a number of dialects are spoken, the principal of which will be found entered herein in their alphabetic order. Some difficulty has been encountered in deciding upon the claim of certain titles to admission into the bibliography. There are certain districts,
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330686241
• ISBN 13: 9781330686249
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 130
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