Editing Polyglotta Africana (section)

==Koelle's word list==
In the introduction Koelle tells us that he wanted a selection of words that would be simple enough for each informant to be interviewed on a single day, and for this reason he omitted pronouns, which would have taken much longer to elicit. He adds that a few years earlier<ref>A footnote in Lapsansky-Werner & Bacon (2005), p. 255, states that Koelle had already made a brief visit to Sierra Leone in 1843 under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society.</ref> during a long vacation he had made a similar such list, of just 71 languages, and that in making the present list he had learnt from that experience.

The actual list (the spelling is Koelle's) is as follows:

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# One
# Two
# Three
# Four 
# Five
# Six
# Seven
# Eight
# Nine
# Ten
# Eleven
# Twelve
# Thirteen
# Fourteen
# Fifteen
# Sixteen
# Seventeen
# Eighteen
# Nineteen
# Twenty
# Man
# Woman
# Boy
# Girl
# Father
# Mother
# Grandfather
# Grandmother
# Son
# Daughter
# Elder Brother
# Younger Brother
# Elder Sister
# Younger Sister
# Friend
# Stranger
# King
# Male Slave
# Female Slave
# Doctor
# Medicine
# Head
# Hair
# Face
# Forehead
# Nose
# Eye
# Ear
# Mouth
# Tooth
# Tongue
# Throat
# Gullet
# Neck
# Shoulder
# Arm
# Arm between Shoulder and Elbow
# Arm between Elbow and Wrist
# Leg
# Outer Hand, or Hand
# Inner Hand
# Foot, or Instep of the Foot
# Foot-sole
# Finger
# Toe
# Elbow
# Rib
# Chest
# Female breast
# Belly
# Navel
# Thigh
# Knee
# Heel
# Nail (of Finger and Toe)
# Skin
# Bone
# Vein
# Blood
# Itch
# Small-pox
# Hat
# Cap
# Shoe
# Shirt
# Trousers
# Waist-cloth
# Town (Village)
# Market
# House
# Door
# Doorway
# Bed
# Mat
# Knife
# Spoon
# Ear-ring
# Armlet or Bracelet
# Pot
# [[Calabash]]
# Gun
# [[Gunpowder|Powder]]
# Sword
# Spear
# Bow
# Arrow
# [[Quiver]]
# War
# God
# Devil
# Idol
# [[Gris-gris (talisman)|Greegree]]
# Sacrifice
# Heaven (sky)
# Hell
# Fire
# Water
# Soup
# Meat (often Animal)
# Salt
# Gold
# Iron
# Stone
# [[Hoe (tool)|Hoe]]
# Axe
# Book
# Ink
# Sun
# Moon (? full)
# New Moon
# Day
# Night
# Dry Season
# Rainy Season
# Rain
# Dew
# Coal
# Smoke
# Soap
# Sand
# Canoe
# Bench, Chair
# Needle
# Thread
# Rope
# Chain (Fetters?)
# Drum
# Tree
# Firewood
# Walking-stick
# Leaf
# Root
# Palm-tree
# Palm-Oil
# [[Sorghum bicolor|Guinea-Corn]] (bearing like Maize)
# [[Pennisetum glaucum|Kuskus]] (bearing like Oats)
# Cotton
# Cotton-plant (a Shrub)
# Cotton-tree
# [[Baphia nitida|Camwood]]
# Rice (uncooked)
# [[Yam (vegetable)|Yam]]
# [[Cassava|Cassada]]
# [[Vigna subterranea|Ground-nut]]
# Pepper
# Onion
# Maize
# Beans
# Farm
# Forest
# Horse
# [[Mare]]
# Cow
# Bull
# Milk
# Butter
# Ewe (Sheep)
# Ram (Sheep)
# Goat
# Buck
# Cat
# Rat
# Pig
# Bat
# Pigeon
# Parrot
# Fowl (Hen)
# [[Rooster|Cock]]
# Egg
# Bird
# Fish
# Serpent
# Scorpion
# Mosquito
# Butterfly
# Spider
# Wasp
# Bee
# Honey
# Lion
# Leopard
# Elephant
# Ivory
# [[Crocodile|Alligator]]
# Monkey
# [[Chameleon|Chamelion]]
# Lizard (the common one)
# [[Agama agama|The large red-headed Lizard]]
# [[Toad]]
# Frog
# Dog
# Great, large
# Little, small
# White
# Black
# White Man
# Black Man (Negro)
# Good
# Bad
# Old
# New (young)
# Sick
# Well
# Hot
# Cold
# Wet
# Dry
# Greedy
# Stupid
# Rich
# Poor
# Straight
# Crooked (bent)
# I go
# I come
# I run
# I stop
# I sit down
# I lie down
# I breathe
# I cough
# I sneeze
# I snore
# I laugh
# I weep
# I kneel
# I dream
# I sleep
# I die
# I fall
# I rise
# I speak
# I hear
# I beg
# I bathe (wash myself)
# I see
# I take
# I buy
# I sell
# I love thee
# I give thee
# I eat rice (yam)
# I drink water
# I cook meat
# I kill a fowl
# I cut a tree
# I flog a child
# I catch a fish
# I break a stick
# I call a slave
# I cover a pot
# I sew a shirt (cloth)
# I pray to God (beg God)
# I play
# I do not play
# I dance
# I do not dance
# Yesterday
# Today
# To-morrow
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