{"product_id":"a-concise-dictionary-of-nakoda-assiniboine-9781496229724","title":"A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda Assiniboine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine)\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life the hopes and dreams of Nakoda (Assiniboine) elders. The Nakoda language—also known as Assiniboine, an Ojibwe ethnonym meaning “Stone Enemy”—is an endangered Siouan language of the Mississippi Valley branch spoken in southern Saskatchewan and northern Montana. Nakoda belongs to the Dakotan dialectal continuum, which includes Dakota, Lakota, and Stoney.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The fieldwork for this project was done between 2018 and 2020 with Elder Wilma Kennedy, one of the last fluent speakers living in Carry The Kettle, Saskatchewan. The volume brings together many valuable stories and colorful expressions as well as archaic words that do not appear in any known sources of the language. Particular care was taken to obtain the derivatives of many verbal stems, along with sentences for many of the verbs, adverbs, and other function words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e More than a list of words, this volume contains definitions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This dictionary is an invaluable contribution to endangered language documentation and to theoretical, typological, and comparative linguistics.\"—E. J. Vajda, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A great resource for both academic and nonacademic audiences. It is the most comprehensive dictionary of the Nakoda (Assiniboine) language. It is a mandatory addition to reference collections at academic libraries and will be a treasured possession of every Nakoda household.”—Jurgita Antoine, director of Native language research for the American Indian Higher Education Consortium\u003cbr\u003e“This dictionary greatly increases the knowledge of the Nakoda (Assiniboine) language and will be a valuable resource to those wishing to better understand Siouan languages. Although the work is directed toward the Nakoda (Assiniboine) communities it will also be an important contribution to specialists in the field.”—Thomas Shawl, Nakoda (Assiniboine) language consultant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illistrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Chief Ira McArthur\u003cbr\u003e Messages from Funders\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e A Short History of the Nakoda People\u003cbr\u003e Dialectal Situation of Nakoda\u003cbr\u003e Language Vitality\u003cbr\u003e Methodology\u003cbr\u003e Spelling System and Sound Description\u003cbr\u003e Key to Entries\u003cbr\u003e General Information\u003cbr\u003e Entries for Verbs in the Nakoda–English Section\u003cbr\u003e Entries for Nouns in the Nakoda–English Section\u003cbr\u003e Entries for Morphemes in the Nakoda–English Section\u003cbr\u003e Entries in the English–Nakoda Section\u003cbr\u003e Glossing and Class Codes\u003cbr\u003e Nakoda\/English\u003cbr\u003e English\/Nakoda\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409238630743,"sku":"9781496229724","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496229724.jpg?v=1730506094","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-concise-dictionary-of-nakoda-assiniboine-9781496229724","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}