Indigenous Languages of the Americas

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the...

In response to a recent surge of interest in Native American history, culture and lore, Hippocrene brings you a concise and straightforward dictionary of the Navajo tongue. The dictionary is designed to aid Navajos learning English as well as English...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781422375457Author Hans Cristoph WolfartFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society...

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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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611863833Author Monica MacaulayFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

This timely book is the first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an indigenous Canadian language spoken in British Columbia, now threatened with extinction. The author discusses three major aspects of the language - sound system, word structure,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935228226Author John SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Evolution Publishing & ManufacturingPublisher Evolution Publishing &...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988820000Author Roberto Múkaro Agueibaná BorreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint United Confederation of Taino PeoplePublisher United Confederation...

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Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.Based on fieldwork conducted on the Northern Cheyenne...

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Thirteen of the chapters that comprise the contents of this first volume of Native Languages of the A mericas were originally commissioned by the undersigned in his capacity as Editor of the fourteen volume series (1963-1976), Current Trends in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935228066Author C C TrowbridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Evolution Publishing & ManufacturingPublisher Evolution Publishing &...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935228028Author Gabriel SagardFormat HardbackImprint Evolution Publishing & ManufacturingPublisher Evolution Publishing &...

The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615997435Author Phil BellfyFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Ziibi PressPublisher Ziibi PressWeight(grams) 572g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732176218Author Matthew LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Access Navajo, LLCPublisher Access Navajo, LLCWeight(grams) 676g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556710766Author Marion MillerFormat PaperbackImprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

A hands-on guide for parents and caregivers to develop best practices in revitalizing and teaching Cree to young children. In nehiyawetan kikinahk / Speaking Cree in the Home , Belinda Daniels and Andrea Custer provide an introductory text to help...

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Written for beginning learners of Nakoda (also known as Assiniboine), this workbook, arranged thematically, provides a Nakoda/English lexicon, a vocabulary, a table of kinship terms, a glossary of linguistic terminology, and exercises to do after each...

Maci-Anihsinapemowin / Beginning Saulteaux is an introductory look at one of the most widely spoken of all North American Indigenous languages, regionally known as Saulteaux, Ojibway, Ottawa (Odawa), Chippewa, and Algonquian. In an easy-to-use and...

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