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

[Elizabeth Pearce]

Is this a (further) adjective from ‘Austral’? The Austral Island group is quite a bit south of the Marquesas, but perhaps you could refer to islands in the southern part of the Marquesas as ‘austral’. ???

Liz

Elizabeth Pearce
Honorary Senior Fellow
Languages and Linguistics
University of Melbourne

> On 16/05/2020, at 9:49 am, Mary Laughren <mary.laughren at bigpond.com> wrote:
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> Does anyone know the answer to Serge's query about what Crook meant by 'lesser Australian language' in this context?
> 
> Thanks
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>>> Expéditeur: Serge TCHERKEZOFF <STcherk at PACIFIC-CREDO.FR <mailto:STcherk at PACIFIC-CREDO.FR>>
>>> Date: 13 mai 2020 à 23:22:40 UTC+2
>>> Destinataire: ESFO-L at segate.sunet.se <mailto: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 <mailto: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,
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>>> Serge T
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