The Delaware Primers of Ira D. Blanchard
Goddard, Ives / Beckwith, Miles / Blanchard, Ira D.
This book presents an edition of the three school primers in the Southern Unami dialect of the Delaware language (Lenape, ISO code unm) that were produced by the Baptist missionary Ira D. Blanchard in the years 1834 and 1842. Their short titles are: Linapi'e Lrkvekun (Blanchard 1834a), Linapie Lrkvekun (Blanchard 1834b) and The Delaware First Book (Blanchard [and Journeycake] 1842). Blanchard was aided by two bilingual young men, James Conner ...