Vocabulaire Français-Esquimau: Dialecte Des Tchiglit Des Bouches Du MacKenzie Et de l'Anderson

by Emile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph Petitot, Mile Petitot, Emile Petitot

French missionary mile Petitot (1838-1916) was based in Canada's Northwest Territories for twelve years, from 1862. He visited the Inuit people five times and became so well accepted that they called him 'Mr Petitot, son of the Sun'. Petitot believed that understanding Inuit languages was crucial to the religious conversion of the natives. During his mission, he collected more linguistic material than ever before and prepared dictionaries of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108049796
• ISBN13: 9781108049795
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.7"