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...

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...

Nahuatl, also known as Aztec or Mexican is the most widely spoken indigenous language in Mexico and Central America. Spoken by the Aztecs centuries ago, 1.5 million people in Mexico and Central America continue to speak it today. This bilingual...

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...

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 9781555000639Author Jules JetteFormat HardbackPage Count 1132Imprint Alaska Native Language CenterPublisher Alaska Native Language CenterDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRobert W. Young was professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and was an American linguist known for his pioneering work on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570674211Author Billie Ruth WallsFormat PaperbackImprint Cherokee PublicationsPublisher Cherokee PublicationsWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

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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

The Maya language of Yucatan is known as Yucate by linguists, but its speakers refer to it as May. Dialiectical differences are minimal across the peninsula, and the more than 750,000 speakers of Maya can be understood wherever they go. Moreover, it is...

Educators, scholars, and community activists recognise that immersion education is a key means to restoring Indigenous and other heritage languages. But language maintenance and revitalisation involve many complex issues, foremost may be the lack of...

The Arizona Tewa are a Pueblo Indian group that migrated around 1700 to First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation and who, while speaking Hopi, have also retained their native language. Paul V. Kroskrity examines this curiosity of language and culture,...

This is a critical edition of the Kramapatha and Jatapatha forms of recitational permutations of several sections of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda available in six rare manuscripts found in Pune, India. Such recitational variations for the Atharvaveda are no...

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...

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...

Cree is the most widespread native language in Canada. The Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary/alperta ohci kehtehayak nehiyaw otwestamakewasinahikan is a highly usable and effective dictionary that serves students, business, governments, and media. This...

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...

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)...

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...

Papers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed scholarship 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,...

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 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...

Based on extensive research and pedagogy on the Rosebud Reservation, this elementary grammar of Lakota, one of the three languages spoken by the Sioux nation, is the first written by a native Lakota speaker. It presents the Sicangu dialect using an...

Kawsay Vida is a course book and interactive multimedia program for the teaching and learning of the Quechua language from beginner to advanced levels. The course book is based on contemporary Bolivian Quechua, while the multimedia program contains a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990334415Author Wallace ChafeFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Mundart PressPublisher Mundart PressWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...