Oxford University Press, 2012. — 560 p. This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading experts on the region, provides an account of the more than 300...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1933-38. — 726 p. Tonkawa by Harry Hoijer Quileute by Manuel J. Andrade Yuchi by Gunter Wagner Zuni by Ruth L. Bunze Coeur d'Alene by Gladys A. Reichard
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911. — 158 p. The Handbook American Indian languages had its inception in an attempt to prepare a revised edition of the "Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages," by Major J. W. Powell. Introduction, by Franz Boas. Athapascan (Hupa), by Pliny Earle Goddard. Tlingit, by John R. Swanton. Haida, by John R. Swanton. Tsimshian, by...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 278 p. Once spoken only in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, the Xinkan language family is unique within Mesoamerica, comprising four closely related languages that are unrelated to any of the other language groups used within the region. Descriptions of Xinkan date to 1770 but are typically only sketches or partial word lists. Not even the...
Год издания: 2007 Количество страниц: 206 ISBN-10: 0521228344 ISBN-13: 978-0521228343 Язык: English At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part of South America, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. For some we still have...
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