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ERDMANN, Friedrich (1810-1873)
Eskimoisches Wörterbuch, gesammelt von den Missionaren in Labrador, revidirt und herausgegeben von Freidrich Erdmann
Budissin: Ernst Moritz Monse, 1864. Octavo (9 x 6 inches). [4],360pp. with text in double columns. Contemporary black straight-grained half morocco over black patterned embossed paper-covered boards, the flat spine divided into six compartments by single gilt fillets, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, speckled edges.
An Eskimo-German vocabulary compiled by missionaries in Labrador
Revised by Friedrich Erdmann, who also translated the texts of the books of Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon into the same Native American language. The word list, arranged alphabetically in double columns, is accompanied by a two-page foreword which provides a brief introduction to the orthography and grammar of the Inuktitut language. The companion German-Eskimo vocabulary was published in 1866.
Pilling Eskimo p.30; Ayer Indian linguistics (Eskimo) 52; OCLC 1250074.
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