Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Ramet, Nicolas

​​RAMET, Nicolas (rah-may), French philologist, b. in the county of Soissonnois in 1673 ; d. in Bor- deaux in 1733. He made extensive voyages through the West Indies, Guiana, Louisiana, and several parts of South America, and was a shareholder of the Mississipi company, and an advocate of colonial extension. His works include " Traite d'une poli- tique coloniale" (Utrecht, 1712); "Etudes sur 1'origine et la formation de la langue Cara'ibe " (1716) ; " Memoire pour servir a la defense du sys- teme financier de Law " (Amsterdam, 1721) ; " For- mations granimaticales et phonetiques des dialectes Indiens " (2 vols., 1723) ; " Dictionnaire de la langue Tupi " (1726) ; and " Analogic entre les langues Indiennes de 1'Amerique du Sud et les langues Critiques."

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