Extracts from Dictionary – Yes – Sign Language
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – To What Extent Prevalent as a System
To What Extent Prevalent as a System – Sign Language Read More »
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Extracts from Dictionary
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There can be no attempt in the present limits to trace the etymology of any large number of words in the several Indian languages to a gestural origin, nor, if the space allowed, would it be satisfactory. The signs have scarcely yet been collected, verified, and collated in sufficient numbers for such comparison, even with
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Divisions of Gesture Speech
The general report that there is but one sign language in North America, any deviation from which is either blunder, corruption, or a dialect in the nature of provincialism, may be examined in reference to some of the misconceived facts which gave it origin and credence. It may not appear to be necessary that such
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Dialogue Between Alaskan Indians
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Danger of Symbolic Interpretation
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Dakotan
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Comparison With Deaf-Mute Signs
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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Classes of Diversities in Signs
Sign Language Among North American Indians – Address of Kin Chē-ĕss
As Stated at the outset, it is customary to classify peoples according to their languages. The main groups are what are called stock languages, or families. Under such heads are placed all languages that seem to have had a common origin regardless of whether they are mutually intelligible or not. Thus English and German are
In the early 1800’s the Smithsonian Institution printed a small vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, furnished by Dr. B. R. Mitchell, of the U.S. Navy, and prepared, as we afterwards learned, by Mr. Lionnet, a Catholic priest, for his own use while studying the language at Chinook Point. It was submitted by the Institution, for
In the history of the Creeks, and in their legends of migration, many references occur to the tribes around them, with whom they came in contact. These contacts were chiefly of a hostile character, for the normal state of barbaric tribes is to live in almost permanent mutual conflicts. What follows is an attempt to enumerate and sketch them, the sketch to be of a prevalently topographic nature. We are not thoroughly acquainted with the racial or anthropological peculiarities of the nations surrounding the Maskoki proper on all sides, but in their languages we possess an excellent help for classifying them.