A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect
A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect

Author: William Vans Murray

Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1889758612

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This volume contains a list of some 300 words collected by Murray in 1796 along the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It further contains introductory remarks and annotation by linguist Daniel G. Brinton, who provides words for comparison in a number of other Algonquin languages including Lenape and Chipeway. This edition features an indexed listing of Brinton's Algonquin comparisons in the appendix.

A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon
A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon

Author: Thomas Campanius Holm

Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1889758639

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From Campanius' Vocabularium Barbaro-Virgineorum, this volume features a vocabulary of the Unami traders' jargon of Lenape-Delaware used along the lower Delaware River, with over 500 entries plus dialogues and speeches recorded in the 1640s. It follows theedition translated by Peter S. Duponceau in 1834. Also included in this volume is William Penn's word-list of the Pennsylvania Indians, which lists 17 words in the jargon.

The Tutelo Language
The Tutelo Language

Author: Horatio Hale

Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC

Published: 2023-03-20

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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The most significant treatment of the language(s) spoken by the Siouan tribes of Virginia is the 1883 article "The Tutelo Tribe and Language" by Horatio Hale. Hale includes a substantial 279 word vocabulary, as well as numerous grammatical tables with explanations, mostly gathered from an elderly Tutelo called Nikonha. This edition includes all the Tutelo grammatical material printed by Hale, and organizes the vocabulary into bidirectional English-Tutelo and a new Tutelo-English section.

Heckewelder's Vocabulary of Nanticoke
Heckewelder's Vocabulary of Nanticoke

Author: John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder

Publisher: Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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"Native American Language, Algonquian language, linguistics, language dictionary. This volume features 146 words of this Maryland language collected in 1785 by John Heckewelder, a Moravian missionary. Heckewelder compiled the vocabulary from a Nanticoke chief residing in Canada, probably at Six Nations Reserve. The volume was collated from various manuscripts found in the collections of the American Philosophical Society and contains valuable background information gleaned from Heckewelder's personal correspondence."

A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot
A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot

Author: John Dyneley Prince

Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1889758647

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Mohegan-Pequot was an Eastern Algonquian language originally spoken in southeastern Connecticut along the Thames River. It became extinct in the early 20th century. This vocabulary contains 446 words collected in 1903 by J. Dyneley Prince and Frank Speck from Fidelia Fielding, a resident of Mohegan, Connecticut and the last native speaker of the dialect; with 12 additional words from the Brothertown reservation in Wisconsin. It features etymological and comparative linguistic commentary for each term by Prince and Speck.

Minor Vocabularies of Nanticoke-Conoy
Minor Vocabularies of Nanticoke-Conoy

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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"Excerpted from: Frank G. Speck. 1927. The Nanticoke and Conoy Indians, with a review of Linguistic Material from Manuscript and Living Sources. Wilmington:The Historical Society of Delaware"--T.p. vers