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Koasati Dictionary

Koasati Dictionary

Kimball, Geoffrey

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians

Indigenous Languages of the AmericasGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0803227264
ISBN13: 9780803227262
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 1 1994
Pages: 407
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.54 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
Koasati Dictionary is one of the first modern dictionaries ever published of a language of the Muskogean language family, whose speakers formerly occupied most of the southeastern United States. When first met by Europeans in the sixteenth century, the Koasati people were living in Eastern Tennessee. In the early eighteenth century they moved to south-central Alabama and eventually migrated to present-day Louisiana, Texas, or Oklahoma. Today their language survives in southwestern Louisiana, where it is still spoken by the majority of tribal members living there.

Published three years after Kimball's richly detailed Koasati Grammar, this dictionary is the second of three monographs to result from his fifteen-year study of the language. In this work, Kimball provides the user with a substantial introduction outlining Koasati grammar and then organizes dictionary entries into two parts, the first arranged from Koasati to English and the second from English to Koasati. In addition to the English translations, entries in the Koasati-English section include sample sentences that illustrated word usage as well as illuminate traditional Koasati culture. Most of these sentences are taken from narrative texts.

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