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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/7/2025 00:23, Sebastian Nordhoff

      via Lingtyp wrote:<br>

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    <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:54f9cdf6-2dd4-4376-8eda-288ef328b6dc@glottotopia.de">For

      instance, for Australia, we have both word-to-word as well as

      sentence-to-sentence translations in Meyer (1843), see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://paperhive.org/documents/items/DoB16j3955xu?a=p:298" safelinkhref="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpaperhive.org%2Fdocuments%2Fitems%2FDoB16j3955xu%3Fa%3Dp%3A298&data=05%7C02%7Cdavid.nash%40anu.edu.au%7Ceefa64d5b8744ae148c408ddbd61f9c4%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638874950718360443%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wjfd2CevtXZgscrWok1a6IU9AFCdsiFGqdt%2Bia5mC1Q%3D&reserved=0" title="Decoded from: https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpaperhive.org%2Fdocuments%2Fitems%2FDoB16j3955xu%3Fa%3Dp%3A298&data=05%7C02%7Cdavid.nash%40anu.edu.au%7Ceefa64d5b8744ae148c408ddbd61f9c4%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638874950718360443%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIw

 LjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wjfd2CevtXZgscrWok1a6IU9AFCdsiFGqdt%2Bia5mC1Q%3D&reserved=0" moz-do-not-send="true">https://paperhive.org/documents/items/DoB16j3955xu?a=p:298</a>

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    What has to be the earliest instance of word-by-word glossing of an

    Australian language is William Dawes' from 1790. He used superscript

    numbers. The first occurrence in his extant notebooks is<br>

    <blockquote>Yenma<sup>1</sup> kaóui<sup>2</sup> Walk<sup>1</sup>

      come<sup>2</sup>, or in plain English come here or walk this way.<br>

      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.williamdawes.org/ms/msview.php?image-id=book-a-page-6">https://www.williamdawes.org/ms/msview.php?image-id=book-a-page-6</a><br>

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    There are subsequent examples of Dawes using four or more

    superscripts.<br>

    David<br>

    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www0.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/">https://www0.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/</a><br>

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