Nez Perce Grammar

Nez Perce Grammar
Author: Haruo Aoki
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1970
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Nez Perce Dictionary

Nez Perce Dictionary
Author: Haruo Aoki
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1321
Release: 2024-06-04
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0520413288

In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, linguist Haruo Aoki illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from published Nez Perce oral literature. In addition, Aoki retranscribes and incorporates words from earlier publications that are recognized by today's Nez Perce speakers. The dictionary includes an English-Nez Perce index, appendixes listing phonosymbolic words and Nez Perce animal and plant names, and illustrations from Nez Perce life. Originally published in 1994, the Nez Perce Dictionary continues to be a reference and resource for new generations of speakers and scholars.

Umatilla Dictionary

Umatilla Dictionary
Author: Noel Rude
Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2014-09-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780295994284

Umatilla Dictionary documents the language of the Umatilla people east of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. Working for many years with the accumulated scholarship of linguists and anthropologists as well as with elders on the Umatilla Reservation, tribal linguist Noel Rude has painstakingly recorded and rationalized words, pronunciations, phrases, and other elements of the Umatilla language. The dictionary includes a grammar and comparative information that places the Umatilla language in its linguistic and historical context and compiles all of its known words, phrases, and constructions. Umatilla Dictionary is an important work for people of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Yakama Nation, and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and adds to the growing linguistic work being done by tribes and scholars on endangered languages.

Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives

Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives
Author: Adrianna Link
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2021-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1496224337

The collection explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society’s library materials as scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.

Making Dictionaries

Making Dictionaries
Author: William Frawley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2002-10-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780520229969

A collection of essays about the theory and practice of Native American lexicography, and more specifically the making of dictionaries, by some of the top scholars working in Native American language studies.

Ichishkíin Sinwit Yakama / Yakima Sahaptin Dictionary

Ichishkíin Sinwit Yakama / Yakima Sahaptin Dictionary
Author: Virginia R. Beavert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2018-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780295997933

Sahaptin, or Ichishk�in S�nwit (literally, "this language"), is a Plateau Penutian language spoken in south-central Washington and northern Oregon. This dictionary documents the dialect of Sahaptin that is spoken by the Yakama people. Ichishk�in S�nwit Yakama / Yakima Sahaptin Dictionary is the first modern published dictionary of any Sahaptin dialect. The dictionary is divided into three sections: a Sahaptin-English section; an English-Sahaptin section; and a section listing roots used in the formation of Sahaptin words. The Sahaptin-English section contains approximately 3,500 headwords, over 4,500 example sentences, more than 100 images, and over 9,200 sound files available online. Copious cross-references alert readers to related words elsewhere in the Sahaptin-English section. The English-Sahaptin and roots sections serve as indices to the Sahaptin-English section. In the English-Sahaptin section, users can look up the Sahaptin equivalents of English words. In the root section, users can see words from different parts of the dictionary that share the same component of meaning. The dictionary also contains essays by noted Plateau linguist Bruce Rigsby (professor emeritus, University of Queensland) on the histories and current usage of the terms "Sahaptin" and "Yakima / Yakama."