Natchez Analytical Dictionary

By (author) Geoffrey D. Kimball

ISBN13: 9781496240354

Imprint: University of Nebraska Press

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 01/08/2025

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In Natchez Analytical Dictionary Geoffrey Kimball offers the first comprehensive dictionary of the Natchez language, a now extinct Native American language originally spoken in the region surrounding Natchez, Mississippi, and finally in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Based primarily on the extensive fieldwork of world-renowned linguist Mary R. Haas, the dictionary also contains material collected earlier by linguists and anthropologists such as Victor Riste, John R. Swanton, Albert S. Gatschet, Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson, Albert Pike, and Albert S. Gallatin. The Natchez language—whose lack of accurate available lexical material has perplexed modern linguists—has long been thought to be related to the Muskogean languages. Kimball’s Natchez Analytical Dictionary fills this critical gap for comparative, historical linguistics.
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction The Natchez speakers and the linguists who worked with them. Isalakti Albert S. Gallatin Anonymous Albert Pike John Laslie Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson Albert Samuel Gatschet Creek Sam Charlie Jumper Watt Sam Nancy Raven Peggy Leaf John Reed Swanton Victor Riste Mary Rosamond Haas Discussion of Dictionary Entries Word classes Alphabetical order Pronunciation Word division Example sentences Diachronic and Idiolectal Variation References Notes Natchez-English Dictionary Affixes Auxiliary Elements English-Natchez Glossary
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