Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Building on the foundations laid by the first volume of Choctaw Language and Culture, this follow-up text presents a more advanced linguistic study of Oklahoma Choctaw, accompanied by short stories and anecdotes written by Choctaws in their native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883120378Author John R AdiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935228295Author Harmen Meyndertsz Van Den BogaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Evolution Publishing & ManufacturingPublisher Evolution Publishing...

A warm, witty, passionate cry for living, vital, indigenous languages and the people who speak them.Despite the more than 200 Indigenous languages spoken in Mexico, including 63 that are officially recognized and celebrated by the Mexican government,...

Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar and...

In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and...

The Chickasaws are one of the Five Tribes removed by the U.S. government to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) more than 150 years ago from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Most speakers of the Chickasaw language now live in the Chickasaw...

Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century...

Beginning Creek provides a basic introduction to the language and culture of the Mvskoke-speaking peoples, Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole Indians. Written by linguistic anthropologist Pamela Innes and native speakers Linda Alexander and Bertha Tilkens,...

Yucatec Maya, the most widely spoken Maya language, can be heard throughout Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, in Belize, and in parts of Guatemala. This unique guide is the perfect reference for visitors to the rainforests, beaches, and spectacular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486220291Author William TomkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912006437Author Michael FortescueFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This first pedagogical grammar of the Papago language features twenty chapters on grammatical constructions and five sample dialogs plus abbreviations, symbols, summary of grammatical elements, and two glossaries. Classroom-tested for teaching both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806195292Author Cameron PrattFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512831Author John P. WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature combines literary criticism, sociolinguistics, native studies, and poetics to introduce an Anishinaabe way of reading. Although nationally specific, the book speaks to a broad audience...

Of extant languages, Ch'orti' Mayan is the closest to ancient the Maya hieroglyphic script, but it is a language that is decreasing in usage. In southern Guatemala where it is spoken, many children no longer learn it, as Spanish dominates most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555001094Author Michael FortescueFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Alaska Native Language CenterPublisher Alaska Native Language CenterDimensions(mm)...

As an Elder once said, "Learn one Cree word a day for 100 days, and emerge a different person." In 100 Days of Cree , Neal McLeod offers us a portal into another way of understanding the universe--and our place within it--while demonstrating why this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870137532Author Basil H. JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

This revised edition of Spoken Cree by C. Douglas Ellis is the first of three levels in a complete Cree language course, based on the "N" and "L" dialects spoken west of James Bay. Level I introduces the student to Cree by focussing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873515245Author Harlan LaFountaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

In a world where over half of the remaining six thousand languages will most likely disappear by the end of the century, attention has finally begun to focus on the struggles of indigenous people to save their languages. Lack of knowledge concerning the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816521395Author Shirley SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 433Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Papers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed presentations from an annual international forum that focuses on topics related to the languages and cultures of Algonquian peoples. This series touches on a variety of subject areas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988824833Author Payne Many GunsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint UpRoutePublisher Durvile Publications Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611862690Author Monica MacaulayFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611863444Author Monica MacaulayFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

Bkejwanong means "where the waters part," but the waters of St. Clair River are not a point of separation. The same waters that sustain life on and around Bkejwanong-formerly known as Walpole Island, Ontario-flow down into Chippewas of the Thames, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681342207Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Taken from surviving contemporary documentary sources, this work describes the grammar and lexicon of the extinct 17th-century Timucua language of Central and North Florida, and traces the origins of 17th-century Timucua speakers and their language.Book...

This book is an primary text for the Shoshoni language that provides basic information on the phonology and grammar of the language. While the book emphasizes the Fort Hall dialect, it also addresses other dialects. Primarily conceived as a college or...

Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise. These clauses have been even more neglected in the study of Mesoamerican languages. Headless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611863802Author Mark D. FreelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512817Author Frederic BaragaFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512824Author Stephen R. RiggsFormat HardbackPage Count 681Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556710667Author Rick FloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

A Hippocrene Trilingual Reference Quechua is a Native American language spoken by nearly 10 million people, primarily in the Andes region of South America. It is best known as the language of the ancient Inca empire. Alongside Spanish, Quechua is an...