[An-lang] Fwd: query on the notion of "lesser Australian language" in 1799

[Mary Laughren]

Does anyone know the answer to Serge's query about what Crook meant by 'lesser Australian language' in this context?

Thanks
Mary
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>> Expéditeur: Serge TCHERKEZOFF <STcherk at PACIFIC-CREDO.FR>
>> Date: 13 mai 2020 à 23:22:40 UTC+2
>> Destinataire: ESFO-L at segate.sunet.se
>> Objet: query on the notion of "lesser Australian language" in 1799
>> Répondre à: Serge TCHERKEZOFF <STcherk at PACIFIC-CREDO.FR>
>> 
>> Bonjour, some of you knowledgeable in the history of Pacific linguistics classification might be able to help. 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?
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>> Thanks, take care,
>> 
>> Serge T
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