Early Fragments of Minsi Delaware (American Language Reprints, V. 29) [Hardcover]

John Heckewelder (Author), Thomas Jefferson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 45 pages
• Publisher: Arx Pub (September 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889758310
• ISBN-13: 978-1889758312
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,920,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Minsi Vocabulary, September 2, 2004

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Laura Redish (Twin Cities, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Fragments of Minsi Delaware (American Language Reprints, V. 29) (Hardcover)

This is a modern reprint of three eighteenth and nineteenth-century vocabularies of the Minsi (Munsee) Delaware Indian language (one recorded by president Thomas Jefferson, who had a keen interest in linguistics). It is a very small volume, and there is no phonetic key. An interesting book from a historical linguistics perspective or if you'd like to learn a few words of Delaware, but don't buy it expecting to learn how to speak the language.