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Publisher: Elangomat Waletittin Date: 1977 Pages: 50 Language: English For about a century, beginning with 1740, Missionaraies of the United Brethren, or Moravians, devoted themselves to the conversation and civilization of portions of Lenâpe’ or Delaware Indians. Thes e earnest Christian men studied the native tongue, reduced it to writing, and printed it in, for the use of their converts, a number of works of a religious and educational character. The history of their literary activity in this language has been recently traced elsewhere, in detail,* and need not be repeated here. While some of the the results appeared in type, much of it remained in manuscript until the curiosity of scientific students led to its publication. Thus, in 1827, Peter S. Duponceau edited the Grammar of Zeisberger, + and sixty years later his English-German-Onondaga-Delaware Dictionary was printed by the private liberality of Professor E.N. Horsford. These works of David Zeisberger - whose life found an able and sympathetic narrator in the late Rev. Edmund de Schweintz*-together with his printed Delaware Spelling Book, were the chief sources from which the later missionaries drew their knowledge of th

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Author

Waletittin Elangomat.

Language

EN

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nonfiction

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Language Learning, Language