Queensland aboriginal dialects

Charles Price's background is not known.

The work has no formal title. It is comprised of an introductory note, 4 pages, headed 'Townsville Cleveland Bay, Queensland, August 31 1885', referring to the author's sixteen years' experience of dialects; 172 pages of vocabulary, with aboriginal words in alphabetical order on the left hand page, and English translations on the right; native songs and chants, the aboriginal version of the Lord's Prayer, etc., 4 pages; and notes on pronunciation, 2 pages.

Presented by the Executive Commissioners of Queensland at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1887.

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Queensland aboriginal dialects, RCMS 291

Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 167. Indexed

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