<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Does anyone know the answer to Serge's query about what Crook meant by 'lesser Australian language' in this context?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class="">Mary<br class=""><div class="">
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I am being asked by my friends the Koenig in Papeete who intend to publish a translation of W P Crook's " An Essay toward a dictionary and grammar of the lesser-Australian language, according to the dialect used at the Marquesas, 1799" (via the English edition in 1998 by Hughes and Fischer) some advice for translating the title, but I must confess I am at loss with this strange (at least to me) notion of "lesser-Australian language". This is about Marquesan. So what was the group of languages that was, at least among LMS people, designated by this qualification, in 1799? A specific geo-linguistic classification in the early days of the LMS, via Samuel Greatheed?</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Thanks, take care,</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Serge T</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">-- </span><br class=""><span class="">rendre raison du monde social doit rester un exercice de plein air et de liberté (P-P Zalio, hommage à JC Chamboredon)</span><br class=""><span class="">The Pacific is a vibrant space of ongoing indigenous knowledge production</span><br class=""><span class="">not just a reserve of raw materials for anthropology's theoretical innovations,</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">EHESS (DE Emeritus) / ANU-CAP-CHL (Prof Hon.)</span><br class=""><span class="">titulaire/Fellow:</span><br class=""><span class="">---CREDO (AMU-CNRS-EHESS) <a href="http://www.pacific-credo.fr" class="">www.pacific-credo.fr</a></span><br class=""><span class="">---Programme Pacific-Dialogues (ANU...) <a href="http://www.pacific-encounters.fr" class="">www.pacific-encounters.fr</a> <a href="http://www.pacific-dialogues.fr" class="">www.pacific-dialogues.fr</a></span><br class=""><span class="">associé/Adjunct:</span><br class=""><span class="">---<a href="http://troca.unc.nc/membres/tcherkezoff/" class="">http://troca.unc.nc/membres/tcherkezoff/</a></span><br class=""><span class="">---MSHP (UPF)</span><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>