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Koasati Dictionary
Geoffrey D. Kimball, Cloth: 1994,xxxv,407,CIP.LC
94-16427,0-8032-2726-4
Studies in the Anthropology
of North American Indians Series
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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. Early
in the eighteenth century they moved to southcentral
Alabama and eventually migrated to present-day Louisiana,
Texas, and 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 English
translations, entries in the Koasati-English section
include sample sentences that illustrate word usage
as well as illuminate traditional Koasati culture. Most
of these sentences are taken from narrative texts.
The dictionary, like Kimball's grammar
of Koasati, is an indispensable reference work for linguists,
anthropologists, and historians—indeed, for anyone
interested in the native culture history of the southeastern
United States.
Geoffrey D. Kimball is a post-doctoral
fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Tulane University.
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