{"product_id":"natchez-analytical-dictionary-9781496240354","title":"Natchez Analytical Dictionary","description":"In \u003ci\u003eNatchez Analytical Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNatchez Analytical Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e fills this critical gap for comparative, historical linguistics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Kimball\u003c\/b\u003e is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eYukhíti Kóy: A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2022), \u003ci\u003eKoasati Traditional Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2010), \u003ci\u003eKoasati Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 1994), and \u003ci\u003eKoasati Grammar\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 1991). \u003cb\u003eWatt Sam\u003c\/b\u003e (c. 1877-1944), a member of the Cherokee Nation, was one of the last remaining speakers of the Natchez language. He worked extensively with Mary R. Haas and other linguists to record vocabulary, grammar, and more than seventy traditional narratives. \u003cb\u003eNancy Raven\u003c\/b\u003e (c. 1874-1957), a member of the Cherokee Nation, was upon her death the last known speaker of Natchez. She worked extensively with Mary R. Haas to record vocabulary, grammar, and fourteen literary narratives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552737100050,"sku":"9781496240354","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_299cbcc3-6ba2-44db-a051-bdf1c26538ec.jpg?v=1754901577","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/natchez-analytical-dictionary-9781496240354","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}