[Lingtyp] earliest attestations of interlinear examples per area/continent

[David Nash]

On 8/7/2025 00:23, Sebastian Nordhoff via Lingtyp wrote:
> For instance, for Australia, we have both word-to-word as well as 
> sentence-to-sentence translations in Meyer (1843), see 
> https://paperhive.org/documents/items/DoB16j3955xu?a=p:298
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

    Yenma^1 kaóui^2 Walk^1 come^2 , or in plain English come here or
    walk this way.
    https://www.williamdawes.org/ms/msview.php?image-id=book-a-page-6

There are subsequent examples of Dawes using four or more superscripts.
David
https://www0.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/
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