THE WARAU INDIANS OF GUIANA

AND VOCABULARY OF THEIR LANGUAGE,

By The Reverend James WILLIAMS.

A question as to what was known of the Warau language led to the present compilation. Mons. Lucien Adam's 'Esquisse Grammaticale de la Langue Guarauno' is here reproduced in English, it is based on the 'Questions' of the Rev. W. H. Brett, and these are also given here with a literal translation.

The published sources of the Vocabulary are :

82 words and numerals

18 words

73 words, names of birds, etc.

18 words

24 words

About 60 words and numerals

8 words

About 130 words

A few additional words

About 36 words and numerals

28 words

About 300 words

About 254 words

No. 38.

No. 63.

No. 64.

No. 9.

No. 11.

No. 52.

No. 75.

No. 22.

No. 76.

No. 16.

No. 80.

No. 72.

No. 69.

1825.

1848.

1848.

1851.

1868.

1868.

1878.

1882.

1883.

1887.

1905.

1907.

1921.

William Hilhouse

R. H. Schomburgk

Richard' Schomburgk

W. H. Brett

W. H. Brett

Louis Plassard

E. F. im Thurn

J. Grevaux

E. F. im Thurn

J. Chaffanjon

Elias Того

В. Tavera-Acosta

В. Tavera-Acosta

The unpublished sources are : No. 32. 1897 ? A. Gorrochotegui

No. 74. 1912. 0. Thulin

No. 79. 1924. (G.B.Reynolds)

Société des Américanistes de Paris.

About 170 words. (This was received in MS., but it may have been published in Venezuela. J. W.) About 440 words. MS. About 519 words. MS. The above numbers refer to the Bibliography.

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