Natchez Analytical Dictionary
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Published:1st Aug '25
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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.
“This dictionary will be a boon not only to language learners but also to the fields of linguistics, anthropology, ethnography, and Indigenous Studies, helping us understand more about these people of the great Mississippian culture of North America.”-David V. Kaufman, author of Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories: Language, Archaeology, and Ethnography “Natchez is not for the faint of heart, and Geoffrey Kimball not only shows mastery of the complexities but has managed to explain things cleanly and clearly. He has made sense of all historical layers of documentation, not a simple task, in light of what can be learned from the careful work of Mary R. Haas, and it is wonderful to see all of these facts assembled clearly in one place.”-Marianne Mithun, author of The Languages of Native North America
ISBN: 9781496240354
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480 pages