Denny's Vocabulary of Shawnee
Denny's Vocabulary of Shawnee

Author: Ebenezer Denny

Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1889758655

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This vocabulary is a substantial collection of 404 Shawnee words and phrases collected by Major Ebenezer Denny in January of 1786. It was compiled from Shawnees assembled for treaty at Fort Finney, located along the Great Miami River in the southwestern corner of Ohio, mostly from a woman called "the Grenadier Squaw".

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Dictionary of Powhatan
A Dictionary of Powhatan

Author:

Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1889758620

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This volume represents the largest vocabulary ever collected of Powhatan -- approximately 1,000 entries compiled by William Strachey around 1612. This edition is based on Major's 1849 printing of the British Museum manuscript, with variant forms and extra words cited from the Bodleian manuscript. Two supplementary word-lists of Virginia Algonquian are also included: nine words from an anonymous relation of 1607 attributed to Gabriel Archer, and 29 words from Robert Beverley's 1705 History and Present State of Virginia. This edition also features an introduction by Powhatan scholar Frederic Gleach.

A Vocabulary of the Souriquois Jargon
A Vocabulary of the Souriquois Jargon

Author: Marc Lescarbot

Publisher: Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13:

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"Extracted from: The History of New France (1618) / Marc Lescarbot; W.L. Grant, translator. 3 vols. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1907-1914; and The Jesuit relations and allied documents: travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 / Reuben Gold Thwaites, editor. 73 vols. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901."--T.p. verso.