Thames and Hudson, 2005. — 177 p. In the recent past, a working knowledge of the Maya script has been confined to epigraphers, art historians and other specialists. Its very unfamiliarity to the general public, and the daunting aspect of its approximately 800 signs, have made the system appear more complex and arcane than it really is. Reading the Maya Glyphs is a compact,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 769 p. — (The World of Linguistics 13.1). This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of...
Third Edition. — Thames & Hudson, 2012. — 374 p. The inside story of one of the great intellectual breakthroughs of our time―the first great decipherment of an ancient script―now revised and updated. In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship:...
University of Texas Press, 1979. — 1036 p. These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows: Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun - Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective Ives Goddard - Comparative...
UPenn Museum of Archaeology, 1997. — 254 p. This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook; New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings; and A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings. This volume is designed to function as a...
University of New Mexico Press, 2005. — 683 p. This practical, easy-to-use Navajo dictionary is intended primarily for Navajo children learning to read and write the language in bilingual classrooms. It presents over 1,500 noun and 330 verb entries, all selected because they are words used in and around the school. But the audience for this book has always been larger than just...
Bilingual Press, 1998. — 529 p. This exhaustive bilingual dictionary is the culmination of years of collaboration between educators, linguistic scholars and community informants from the White Mountain Apache Tribe. It also includes dialectical variants from other communities, including the San Carlos Tribe. The dictionary has been compiled with the goal of creating a living,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. — 764 p. — (The World of Linguistics 2). The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas...
Lincom Europa, 2000. — 65 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 301). Oneida is an endangered language of the Iroquoian family of northeastern North America. Among its more notable structural features are: its relatively small phonemic inventory lacking in labials; its use of whispered syllables; the complexity of the verbal morphology; the dominance of verbal structures over...
Dover Publications, 1978. — 226 p. In this study of the hieroglyphs in 3 surviving Maya codices, the author has tabulated all character variants, worked out meanings, and has interrelated these meanings with Maya culture. Day, month, numerals, colors, face signs, quasi-facial forms, animal figures, pictographic objects, eclipse, and more. About 3,000 symbols covered, all...
Mouton, 1974. — 293 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica 225). The Shuswap language (/ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/; Shuswap: Secwepemctsín [ʃəxʷəpəməxˈtʃin]) is a northern Interior Salish language traditionally spoken by the Shuswap people (Shuswap: Secwépemc [ʃəˈxʷɛpəməx]) of British Columbia. An endangered language, Shuswap is spoken mainly in the Central and Southern Interior of British...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. — 397 p. For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback. The New Catalog of...
University of New Mexico Press, 1992. — 1504 p. The Analytical lexicon is designed to reflect, in detail, the morphological features of the Navajo language an objective that includes the identification and description of about 1,130 roots that, variously combined and manipulated, underlie its extensive vocabulary. The main body of the Lexicon includes the verbs, the...
University of California Press, 1993. — 683 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 96). This first published grammar of Halkomelem, an endangered Northwest Coast Indian language, includes chapters on phonetics and phonemics, morphophonemics, each of the word classes, the syntax, the semantics and sememics, and morphosememics (describing domain memberships...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. — 449 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 269). This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various...
L'Harmattan, 2006. — 126 p. Avec une population qui atteint peut-être les 70 000 âmes, les Kuna constituent la deuxième plus importante ethnie indienne du Panama mais ils sont plus connus que les Guaymi, trois fois plus nombreux. Leur chance est d'habiter dans des îles relativement peu accessibles de la côte caraïbe où ils ont pu protéger leur langue et leur culture sans trop...
Hippocrene Books, 2002. — 426 p. This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each entry includes the illustrated glyph, its phonetic transcription, Mayan equivalent, part of speech, and meaning. About the Author John Montgomery was...
Ministerio de Educación de Chile, 2019. — 177 p. El producto que presentamos es un diccionario quechua – español, de la variante Cusco Collao con un grafemario y fonemario que consta de veinticinco consonantes y tres vocales. De las veinticinco consonantes, sólo quince son compatibles con el alfabeto castellano, las diez restantes son particulares del idioma quechua. Asimismo,...
2-nd Edition. — University of Texas Press, 1994. — 440 p. The key to the study of the language and history of the Classic Maya (A.D. 293-900) is the verb. Maya Glyphs: The Verbs is a comprehensive study of the verb morphology and syntax of the Maya writing system. Linda Schele's summary of methodology makes available in a single place many important discoveries and approaches...
Native Child Dinétah, 2014. — 71 p. First published in 1958, this is a simple and concise Navajo–English only dictionary. It has over 9000 entries and contains many useful every day expressions. It was originally intended for the native Navajo speaker to learn English and for non–Navajos who want to acquire some knowledge of the Navajo language.
The University of Texas Press, 1967. — 426 p. This volume, the fifth in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, presents a summary of work accomplished since the Spanish conquest in the contemporary description and historical reconstruction of the indigenous languages and language families of Mexico and Central America. The essays include the following: “Inventory of...
University of California Press, 1974. — 143 p. The Pomo, or Pomoan, family of seven related languages is located in northern California, primarily on Clear Lake, the Russian River, and adjacent sections of the coast. The individual languages of the family are usually referred to by terms giving their geographic locations relative to one another, hence South-eastern Pomo and...
Springer, 1976. — 637 p. 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 Linguistics. All appeared, in 1973, under Part Three of the quadripartite Vol. 10, subtitled Linguistics in...
Springer, 1977. — 540 p. The publishing history of the eleven chapters that comprise the contents of this second volume of Native Languages of the Americas is rather different from that of the thirteen that appeared in Volume I of this twin set late last year. Original ver sions of five articles, respectively, by Barthel, Grimes, Longacre, Mayers, and Suarez, were first...
University of Texas Press, 1993. — 765 p. The Alabama language, a member of the Muskogean language family, is spoken today by the several hundred inhabitants of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Polk County, Texas. This dictionary of Alabama was begun over fifty years ago by tribe member Cora Sylestine. She was aided after 1980 by linguists Heather K. Hardy and...
University of California Press, 2015. — 819 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 150). When Mary R. Haas died in 1996, she left behind several thousand pages of notes and texts in the Creek (Muskogee) language collected in Oklahoma from 1936 to 1940. The majority of the texts come from the unpublished writings of James H. Hill of Eufaula, an especially...
Hippocrene Books, 2004. — 420 p. — (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary). This dictionary reflects usage largely based on classical norms of the Nahuatl literary tradition, but also includes more contemporary vocabulary.
University of California, 1987. — 231 p. — (Ucla Latin American Studies Volume 65). The manuscript which we here publish in transcription and translation is such a superb example of so many important things that we have analyzed it and discussed the insights it provides at· great length, going somewhat beyond the normal extent of prolegomena. We not only explore the...
Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, 1979. — 108 p. — (Alaska Native Language Center research papers 1). This is the first half of a paper on Athabaskan verb stem variation; this first half deals with the phonological aspects of verb stem variation, and specifically the formation of variants for both obstruent-closed and non-obstruent-closed stems. The.second...
Lincom Europa, 2000. — 199 p. — (LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 36). This is the first comprehensive description of the grammatical structure of Teribe, a language of Panama, and a member of the Chibchan family of languages, which covers a wide area ranging from Northeastern Honduras, through the Atlantic of Nicaragua, most of Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, to the...
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1996. — 553 p. — (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves" 35). Este diccionario bilingüe contiene la mayoría de los vocablos principales del idioma chinanteco de Lealao (San Juan Lealao, Oaxaca, México). Las entradas de ambas secciones, chinanteco–español y español–chinanteco, incluyen categorías gramaticales,...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — xvi, 792 p. — (Comprehensive Grammar Library 7). — ISBN 978-3-96110-435-2. This book offers the first detailed grammatical description of Paunaka, an Arawakan language spoken (in 2023) by eight people in the Chiquitania region in the lowlands of Eastern Bolivia. The grammar builds on material collected during several fieldwork trips...
Springer, 2023. — 154 p. This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region. The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier...
University of Texas Press, 1967. — 410 p. This volume, the fifth in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, presents a summary of work accomplished since the Spanish conquest in the contemporary description and historical reconstruction of the indigenous languages and language families of Mexico and Central America. The essays include the following: “Inventory of Descriptive...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. — 928 p. — (The World of Linguistics 12). The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser known languages, also including sign languages. The volume moreover features overviews of recent research on...
Routledge, 2017. — 790 p. — (Routledge Language Family Series). The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200–900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by at least six million indigenous Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This unique resource is an ideal...
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1980. — 265 p. — (Serie de gramáticas de lenguas indígenas de México 2). Esta gramática bilingüe de la lengua mixteca utiliza términos no demasiado técnicos para describir la variante de mixteco que se habla en el pueblo de San Esteban Atatláhuca, distrito de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, México. La primera parte es en español y la segunda parte es en...
Hippocrene Books, 2003. — 308 p. — (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary). Isthmus Zapotec is spoken by nearly 200,000 people on the Pacific coastal plain in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. As a member of the Zapotecan subfamily (of the Otomanguean linguistic stock), it claims one of the highest speaker-populations among indigenous peoples in Oaxaca.
University of California Press, 1989. — 544 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 114). Completed shortly before his death in 1989, this dictionary was envisioned by C. primarily as a companion volume to his Cocopa Texts (UCPL 100, 1983). It was also to some extent a by-product of the comparative Yuman dictionary project, funded by NSF and directed by...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — xvi, 604 p. — (Comprehensive Grammar Library 10). — ISBN 978-3-96110-495-6. Mandan is a Siouan language of North Dakota, near the geographic center of North America. There are no longer any first-language speakers after the last fluent speaker passed away in 2016. This grammar has been built from archival recordings of Mandan speakers...
University of Nebraska Press, 1991. — 657 p. — (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians). An American Indian language belonging to the Muskogean linguistic family, Koasati is spoken today by fewer than five hundred people living in southwestern Louisiana and on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Texas. Geoffrey D. Kimball has collected material from the...
Lincom Europa, 1996. — 61 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 27). Passamaquoddy-Maliseet is an eastern Algonquian language, with about 500 speakers today in Maine (USA) and New Brunswick (Canada). This sketch outlines the fundamental features of the language. Passamaquoddy-Maliseet has five vowel sounds and twelve consonants, with pitch and stress also distinctive. Words...
Aguilar, 1970. — 369 p. — (Biblioteca cultura e historia). Se han conservado en la traducción las grafías empleadas por Middendorf; pero, para actualizarlas, hemos creído conveniente ofrecer, al principio' de la Gramática, un cuadro de equivalentes fonéticos entre los signos de Middendorf y los que han sido aprobados en el III Congreso Indigenista Interamericano de La Paz, el...
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1971. — 151 p. — (Serie Lingüística Peruana 5). El presente libro contiene el vocabulario bilingüe en huitoto (muinane), un idioma en la amazona en el Perú. Tiene el alfabeto y pronunciación, palabras del huitoto (muinane) con traducción en castellano. También, tiene el parte castellano con traducción huitoto (muinane). This is a short bilingual...
Editora Curt Nimuendajú, 2010. — 249 p. — (Línguas ameríndias 1). A língua do povo Mỹky, descrita por Ruth Monserrat em seu trabalho, é uma língua indígena falada pelo povo Mỹky, que vive no Noroeste do Estado do Mato Grosso, próximo à Rondônia. Os Mỹky são linguisticamente e culturalmente aparentados com os Irantxe, compartilhando a mesma língua classificada como isolada. Aqui...
LINCOM Europa, 2008. — 187 p. — (Languages of the world/Materials 474). La presente gramática es un estudio referencial, descriptivo, de la lengua guaymí, llamada ngäbe o ngäbere por sus hablantes. El guaymí es una lengua perteneciente a la familia lingüística chibcha, compuesta por lenguas habladas desde Honduras hasta Venezuela, y es la lengua materna de aproximadamente...
Ministerio de Educación. Unidad de Currículum y Evaluación, 2022. — 187 p. Estos son recursos educativos para el aula, que desarrollan actividades concretas. Se invita a trabajarlas en espacios propios o de significación cultural, abordando el idioma mapuzugun o chedugun de manera transversal y progresiva, dando énfasis a la oralidad, tanto en el contexto rural como urbano,...
IMEHI, 1997. — 337 p. Los indígenas muinanes están situados en el departamento del Amazonas, República de Colombia, cerca de las cabeceras del río Cahuinarí en la población de La Sabana y en el Departamento del Caquetá, a orillas del río Caquetá, en las cercanías de la población de Araracuara. Se ha informado posteriormente que un grupo pequeño vive en el Perú. Su asentamiento...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 730 p. — (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions). This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonianjungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this...
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1983. — 181 p. — (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves" 7). Este vocabulario bilingüe contiene muchos de los vocablos principales del idioma totonaco de la sierra (Zapotitlán de Méndez, Puebla, México). Las entradas de ambas secciones, castellano–totonaco y totonaco–castellano, incluyen traducción con diferentes...