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text is unclear, although it should be noted that following the expulsion, he lived in northern Italy,<br />
in Faenza (Fúrlong Cárdiff 1955:14-15), a region in which many Jesuits who had worked in the<br />
Americas lived upon their return to Europe (other cities in the area which were favored by Jesuits<br />
included Ravenna, where Uriarte lived (Bayle [1952]1986:82), and Forlì and Cesena, where Hervás<br />
y Panduro lived at different points (Caballero 1868). We suppose that one <strong>of</strong> the former Jesuit<br />
missionaries in the region gave Camaño Bazán the text.<br />
Hervás y Panduro published the text in a two-column format, in which short sequences <strong>of</strong><br />
Omagua words were followed by a word-by-word translation in Italian. We reproduce the text in<br />
a manner faithful to its 1787 format in §4.2. It should be noted that the word-by-word translation<br />
exhibit a literalism that permits us to see that the translator <strong>of</strong> the text had a reasonable understanding<br />
<strong>of</strong> Omagua morphology. Likewise, neologism for introduced Christian concepts, such as<br />
1wati Ritama ‘Heaven (lit. high village)’ are translated literally, suggesting that the translation was<br />
carried out by someone with non-trivial knowledge <strong>of</strong> Omagua. Note that we base our analysis in<br />
§4.2 <strong>of</strong> this text on Hervás y Panduro’s 1787 version, and not the derivative Adelung (1813) version<br />
or the Rivet (1910) version, which is based on Adelung (1813).<br />
4.1.2 Adelung (1813)<br />
The next version <strong>of</strong> the Omagua Lord’s Prayer was published in 1813 by the German philologist<br />
Johann Christoph Adelung (b. 1732 Spantekow, Prussia – d. 1806 Dresden), as part <strong>of</strong> his Mithridates,<br />
oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde, a work which, much like those <strong>of</strong> Hervás y Panduro, sought<br />
to classify most <strong>of</strong> the languages <strong>of</strong> the world. Unlike Hervás y Panduro, Adelung utilizes the Lord’s<br />
Prayer, which he obtained in approximately 500 languages, as the central text with which to analyze<br />
the grammar <strong>of</strong> these languages, augmenting them with additional lexical and grammatical material<br />
at his disposal (e.g., from Hervás y Panduro’s works). 123 Adelung indicates that he obtained<br />
the Omagua text from Hervás y Panduro (1787a:98-99). Adelung preserved Hervás y Panduro’s<br />
orthographic representation and word breaks, but translated Hervás y Panduro’s Italian word-byword<br />
translation <strong>of</strong> the Omagua into German. In addition to speculative commentary regarding<br />
the origin <strong>of</strong> the Omagua people and ethnonym, Adelung provides the first grammatical analysis<br />
<strong>of</strong> this text (1813:609-611), making use <strong>of</strong> comparative lexical data published in Hervás y Panduro<br />
(1787b:161-219) and Gilii (1782). 124 It is clear from Adelung’s presentation <strong>of</strong> Omagua grammar<br />
(Adelung 1813:606-607) that he had access to Hervás y Panduro’s unpublished grammar sketch <strong>of</strong><br />
Omagua (see footnote 122).<br />
4.1.3 Rivet (1910)<br />
The next and most recent publication <strong>of</strong> the Omagua Lord’s Prayer – prior to our own – was by Rivet<br />
(1910), as part <strong>of</strong> his descriptive and comparative treatise on Kokama and Omagua. Rivet obtained<br />
the text for the Lord’s Prayer from Adelung (1813:608-609), but made significant orthographic<br />
modifications to the text to bring it more closely in line with with the then-developing standards<br />
for the representation <strong>of</strong> linguistic data.<br />
As would be expected, Rivet provides a much more linguistically sophisticated treatment <strong>of</strong> the<br />
text, including morphemic segmentations and glosses in French for nearly all morphemes he segments.<br />
Given the limited resources Rivet had access to, his morphological segments are impressively<br />
123 Most volumes <strong>of</strong> this work were edited and published by Johann Severin Vater following Adelung’s death.<br />
124 Filippo Salvatore Gilii (b. 1721 Legogne – d. 1789 Rome), an Italian Jesuit who carried out missionary work in<br />
the Orinoco river basin, also obtained Omagua lexical data from Joaquín Camaño Bazán (see Gilii (1965:297-300),<br />
a Spanish translation and republication <strong>of</strong> his original work carried out by Antonio Tovar).<br />
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