A Grammar of Meskwaki

by Ives Goddard

This book is a grammar of Meskwaki, an Algonquian language spoken today in Tama County, Iowa. There are two factors that make Meskwaki of particular interest and importance. It is arguably the most archaic language of the Algonquian family in preserving the word shapes of the ancestral Algonquian language that is reconstructed as Proto-Algonquian by linguists. And it is documented by a very large collection of texts written by numerous native speakers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BY3TPZ4S
• ISBN13: 9798986545035
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Mundart Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"