Arbil.2.2.25329:2011-08-18https://hdl.handle.net/10744/a4a4c3fd-a35c-45bc-8877-0fcb5b751157 clarin.eu:cr1:p_1407745712035

Resource https://hdl.handle.net/10744/abc30ada-0b92-414a-a4c3-1a466519bbce LandingPagehttps://www.meertens.knaw.nl/flat/islandora/object/lat%3A10744_a4a4c3fd_a35c_45bc_8877_0fcb5b751157# AUER74 1774-03-10 Part of a letter written in Negerhollands by Moravian brother Auerbach on St. Thomas. Middle-America Virgin Islands (US) St. Thomas

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P.Muysken@let.ru.nl Centre for Language Studies Letter Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Missionary variety of Negerhollands. ISO639-3:dcr Negerhollands true Unspecified Unspecified Short part of a letter written in Negerhollands by Moravian brother on St. Thomas J.C. Auerbach. He talks among other things about the understanding of Dutch by the slaves on St. Thomas, and the language of the slaves on St. Croix. Translator Auerbach J.C. Auerbach European Unspecified Unspecified Male Unspecified Unspecified Moravian missionary Visiting Brother Johannes Loretz said in his report of 1784 (found by Peter Stein) that all Moravian brothers agree that brother Auerbach had the best command of the creole language (Negerhollands). He must mean the creole language as spoken by the slaves, as in the same report he discusses that the bible translations made by Auerbach are the only ones that can be understood by the slave population, without having to be reworked. ISO639-3:dcr Negerhollands false Unspecified ISO639-3:deu German true Unspecified Unspecified Annotation Unspecified text/x-toolbox-text 6123 B Analysis Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified