ENGLISH

The Arawak Language of Guiana

By C.H. de Goeje

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781108007689
Google Books ID
aGViQgAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4283223 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
Pages
312\312
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Языки и языкознание;Языки индейцев;Аравакские язык

Description

This description of the Arawak language, once spoken widely across the Caribbean area but now restricted to some of the native peoples of Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname, was first published in 1928. C. H. de Goeje was a Dutch submariner whose work had taken him to the then Dutch colony of Suriname; on his resignation from the Dutch navy he continued to investigate its peoples and their languages, and was the recipient of a special Chair in languages and cultural anthropology at the University of Leiden. The book provides long vocabulary lists and a systematic exploration of grammar and phonetics; it also discusses the origin of the language and its differentiation from the other Carib languages of the region. An appendix gives anthropological data, including transcriptions and translations of Arawak myths.

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