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The Language of the Tacana Indians (Bolivia).
99
The Laoguage of the Tacaoa Indiaos (Bolivia).
By RunoLPH SrHULLER
t.
a)
Literature.
The only known vocabulary of the Sapibocona ' dialect is lhal which has
been inserted by the ex-jesuit LoRENZO HERVAS in !he works lisled below
2.
9F "Aritmetica deBe nazioni e divisione del lempo fra l'orientali".
Opera dell'abbate don LORENZO HERYÁS. Cesena, per ÜREGORtO BtASINI,
1786, p. 102
3;
9F "Vocabulario poligloto con prolegomeni sopra piu CL. lingue
dove sano delle scoperte nuove'', &c. Cesena, 1787
4
This material has been partially reprinled by ADELUNG in his
9F "Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mil dem Valer
Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mund–
arten, von ]OHANN C!1RISTOP!1 AoELUNG . .. bearbeitet von Dr.
] OHANN
SEVERINV
~TER.
Dritter Theil. Ersle Ablheilung. Berlin, 1812,
p.
571
and p. 576
s.
The Sapibocona g1ossary has likewise been repri1led in BALBI's "Atlas
Ethnographique du 01obe", Paris. Rey el Oravier, 1826, Tab. XLI, No. 467.
According lo LuoEWIG
G
vocabularies and grammatical notes on the
Tacana and Maropa are lo be found in D'ORBIGNY's "L'Homme Américain",
·1, p. 359 and p. 376 (Tacana) ; p. 380 (Maropa) .
LuoEwiG related lhe Tacana and lhe Maropa lo their neighbors, lhc
Xuracaré, whose language, however, differs from that spoken by the former.
The Sapibocona numerals 1- 10, from BALBI, op. cit., p. 74, were re–
prinled by Pro!. Po•rr
7
in his
"Die Quinare und Vigesimale Zahlmethocle bei Volkern aller J;:rd–
lheile." Halle, 1-847.
1
LUPEWIC, "The Literature of American Aboriginal Languages". London,
1858,
p.
168,
gives erroneously the Sapibocona as related to the KétSua.
2
Regarding to the iterns signed with
9f
1
relied on LuoEWJC, op. cit.
' Vol. XIX o! the work "Idea del!' Universo, che contiene la storia del!a
~ita
dell' uomo", etc.
" Vol. XX of !he same work.
' See also "Linguarum totius orbis vocabularia comparativa, August. (Catherina
ll)
cura collecta (a P.S, PALLAS digesta)". Petropoli,
1786- 1789.-
"Das Gebeth des Herrn
oder Vaterunsersammlung in
152
Sprachen." Herausgegeoo1von GusTAV voN BJ;RCMANN.
Gedruckt zn Ruien
1789. -
"Oratio Dominica CL linguis versa''· etc. Edente Maree!.
Parisiis, Anno repar. sal.
1805.
o Op.
cit.,
pp.
206- 207.
' Op. cit., "Addenda" by Pro!.
W" . W.
TURNEn, p. 238.