Book Announcement: Minor Vocabularies of Huron

[Tony Schiavo]

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Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following
volume from the American Language Reprints (ALR) series:

Volume 32:

Minor Vocabularies of Huron
Jean de Brébeuf, Louis Armand de la Lahontan, et al.

Here are collected various short but important works on the Huron language,
including Brébeuf's grammatical remarks in the Jesuit Relation of 1636. Several
other wordlists from the Jesuit Relations of the mid-17th century are also
included, as well as Lahontan's 50-word vocabulary of 1704. The volume also
includes three words of Neutral—the only actual fragments of the language of this
important nation that was wiped out by Iroquois attacks in the early 1650s.

April 2004 ~ 69 pp. ~ clothbound ~ ISBN 1-889758-40-X ~ $28.00

Evolution Publishing is dedicated to preserving and consolidating early
primary source records of Native and early colonial America with the goal of making
them more accessible and readily available to the academic community and the
public at large.

For further information on this and other titles in the ALR series:

http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRhome.html

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