Exposition Intercoloniale, 1866. Vocabulaire des dialectes des aborigenes de l’Australie.

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Melbourne : Masterman, Printer, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 1867. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers (some chipping and foxing to the edges, lacking the lower wrapper), sewn, pp xiv, [2], 6 large format tables of vocabulary (each folding to 460 x 580 mm),the tables detached from the text block, which is perforated along the gutter. French language edition of : Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Vocabulary of dialects spoken by Aboriginal natives of Australia. In the French language edition, the French nouns are listed first in the vocabulary tables, and reversed in the English language edition. Issued by President of the exposition (Sir Redmond Barry); Includes circular letter Sir John Herschels suggestions for orthography; Charts list comparative vocabularies (c. 700 items) for Wannikin (Mt Rouse tribe), Mt Talbot tribe, upper Murray tribe, lower Murray tribe, Swan Hill tribe, Wannon (Yarlook tribe), lower Goulburn tribe, Lake Tyer tribe, Maryborough tribe, Bewa (Lake Kindmarah [Hindmarsh], Maal (Sth Aust.), Adelaide tribe, Tasmania Mt Royal and Brune Island. Summary on Trove This very rare publication provides an overview and extensive glossaries of fourteen languages of Aboriginal tribes from Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, as well as a New Caledonian word list with French equivalents. It was the fruit of an innovative language project for its time: a list of 700 English terms was circulated amongst missionaries working with various tribal groups, so that a compa

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