Observations fondamentales sur les langues anciennes et modernes ; ou, prospectus de l'ouvrage intit...
Observations fondamentales sur les langues anciennes et modernes ; ou, prospectus de l'ouvrage intitulé: la langue primitive conservée / par M. Le Brigant.
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Paris : Chez Barrois, 1787.
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Date
1787.
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Q491.6/1
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French
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111 p. ; 27 cm.
Contents
Langues Orientales -- Observations sur les traductions -- Différences entre les synonymes apparens -- Chinois -- Hanscrit -- Galibi -- Langue de l'ile Taiti -- Dictionnaires Celtiques.
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Paris : Chez Barrois, 1787.
Date Published
1787.
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Observations fondamentales sur les langues anciennes et modernes ; ou, prospectus de l'ouvrage intitulé: la langue primitive conservée / par M. Le Brigant.
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"Published as a 'preview' of Le Brigant's grand work on comparative linguistics (which never materialised), this idiosyncratic monograph - a work of imaginative pseudo-science - has as its central thesis the idea that the Celtic language is the original language of mankind and that all other languages descend from it"--Bookseller's catalogue.
"Attempts to analyse the relationship between the Celtic and Tahitian languages. As the first European sighting of Tahiti had occurred only twenty years earlier (Wallis, 1767), le Brigant's already innately flawed methodology is necessarily reliant upon the only two published word lists available, those compiled by Bougainville (1768) and Johann Re...
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Text in French.
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Q491.6/1
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74Vv6prw58eX
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