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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Words — Continued . 



Words — Continued. 



Y. 



Yale : This word following a title or withiu paren- 

 theses fitter a note indicates that a copy of the 

 work referred to has been seen by the compiler 

 in the library of Tale College, New Haven , Conii . 



[Yankiewitch (Feodor) de Mirieivo.] 



CpaBHllTC.IbllLlii I C.lOBapb | BCliX'b I H3blK0Bb II 



iiaptisiii, I no asOyiHOMV nopn4i>y | pacno.io- 

 Hteiuibiii. I 'lacTb iiepBaa[-4eTBepTaH] | A-4 

 [C-0]. I 

 Bb CaiiKuineuiepoyprli, 1790[-17L»1]. 



Translation : Comparative | dictionary | of all 

 I langiiages and dialects | in alphabetical order 

 I arranged. | Part first [-fourth] A-U[S-Th]. | 

 At St. Petersburg, 1790[-17911 



4 vols.: title verso blank 1 1. text jip. 1-454; 

 title verso blank 1 I. text jip. 1-499; title verso 

 blank 1 1. text pp. 1-518; title verso blank 1 1. 

 text pp. 1-618,4°. 



About two hundred and seventy-four lan- 

 guages and dialects are here rejire.sented, of 

 which twenty-five are American. Among the 

 latter is one 



Bbo6.iaciiin HyiUKa BbctBopo-sanajiio ii AMepiiKfi 

 [In the region Nutka, in northwestern Amer- 

 ica.] 



Each page is divided into three columns, the 

 first containing in alphabetical order the words 

 of various languages, the second showing the 

 Russian equivalents, and the third giving the 

 names of the languages represented in the first 

 column. Tliis edition was edited bj' Feodor Yan- 

 kiewitch. One thousand copies were printed. 



The work of which the above is a re arrange- 

 ment was begun by the empress Catharine II 

 of Russia in the simuner or autumn of 1784. 

 After laboring on it personally for aliout nine 

 months, she called Prof. Peter Simon Pallas to 

 her aid, and ordered him to digest the material 

 and prepare it for the press. On the22d of May, 

 1785, a circular or pro.spectus of the work was 

 issued ; and in 1786 nModele dii vocabidaire, qui 

 doit servir a la comparai^on de tnntes les langueg, 

 4 11. 4°, was printed, and sent out for the purpose 

 of obtaining additional information. 



One copy or more of this specimen was for- 

 warded to General "Washington, through the 

 Marquis de Lafayette, with a request for some 

 authentic vocabularies of the North American 

 Indians. The receipt of tin's a]q)lication was 

 acknowledged on May lOtb, 1786, by General 



Yankiewitch (F.) — Continued. 



Wasliington, who wrote on the 20th of the follow- 

 ing August to Capt. Thomas Hutchins, enclos- 

 ing theprinted specimen, and asking for vocabu- 

 laries of the Ohio Indians. A few months later, 

 November 27tli, 1786, hearing that Richard But- 

 ler had been appointed superintendent of Indian 

 atl'airs, General "Washington wrote to him, 

 requesting him to obtain theprinted form from 

 Capt. Hutchins, and to collect the desired 

 information. A little more than a year passed 

 before the material was ready. On the 20tli of 

 January, 1788, "Washington transmitted to 

 Lafayette a vocabulary of the Shawanese and 

 Delaware languages, collected by Mr. Butler, 

 together with a shorter specimen of the lan- 

 guage of the southern Indians by Mr. Benjamin 

 Hawkins. 



In the meantime, by order of the empress, 

 work on the great comparative vocabulary had 

 been rapidly luu-ried on. The first socticm was 

 completed and published, with Latin titles pre- 

 fixed, Linrjuarinn totius orbis vocabularia com- 

 parativa; augustisaimae eura toHsc^a, Pet ropoli, 

 1786-1789, 2 vols. 4°. (Fames.) It comprised 

 words in 51 European, llj7 Asiatic, and 12 Poly- 

 nesian languages, with the numerals at the end 

 in 225 languages, all in Russian characters; 285 

 selected words were treated separately, 130 in 

 the first volume and 155 in the second. The 

 Russian word was placed at thoheadof each list, 

 and followed in numerical order by the names 

 of the 200 languages, each witli its equivalent 

 word in one line. 



The second section, which was intended to 

 comprise the American and African words, in 

 one volume, was never printed. This was due to 

 a change of plan. The empress, it seems, was 

 not satisfied with the result. She now wished 

 to have all the words arranged in one general 

 alphabet, irrespective of language. As Prof. 

 Pallas was busily engaged in other scientific 

 labors which had been assigned to him, the serv- 

 ices of Feodor Yankiewitch deMirie wo, director 

 of the normal school at St. Petersburg, were 

 immediately called into requisition. Under his 

 direction all the material in print and manu- 

 script was recast, the American and African 

 words included, and the whole published in four 

 volumes, as described above. 



Copies seen : British Museum, Eames. 

 Yokultat. See Ukwulta. 



