Horatio hale

betekenis & definitie

amerik. linguist en ethinoloog, geb. 3 Mei 1817 te Newport in New-Hampshire, was advokaat te Ciinton in Oniario, waar hij 29 Dec. 1896 stierf; voornaamste werken: United States exploring expedition. Ethnography and philology (Philad. 1896), Indian migrations as evidenced by lancjuage (1883), The origin of language and the antiquity of speaking man (1886), An international idiom (a mannel of the Oregon trade language or Chinook jargon, 1890), Was America peopled from Polynesia? (1890).