Grammatical Remarks on the Practical and Current Dialect of the Jargon of Hindostan (1784)

Grammatical Remarks on the Practical and Current Dialect of the Jargon of Hindostan (1784)
Author: George Hadley
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781104091613

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon

A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon
Author: Thomas Campanius Holm
Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Unami jargon
ISBN: 1889758639

From Campanius' Vocabularium Barbaro-Virgineorum, this volume features a vocabulary of the Unami traders' jargon of Lenape-Delaware used along the lower Delaware River, with over 500 entries plus dialogues and speeches recorded in the 1640s. It follows theedition translated by Peter S. Duponceau in 1834. Also included in this volume is William Penn's word-list of the Pennsylvania Indians, which lists 17 words in the jargon.

Ramaseeana

Ramaseeana
Author: W. H. Sleeman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 825
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108028756

A fascinating vocabulary of the coded language of criminal gangs that operated in colonial India, first published in 1836.