Natick Dictionary: A New England Indian Lexicon (Revised)

by James Hammond Trumbull

Book Overview

James Hammond Trumbull was a prolific New England antiquarian and linguist. In connection with his research into the Native languages of New England, his discovery that some of the languages were highly systematic enabled him to decipher the grammar and vocabulary from rough phonetic accounts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Though Trumbull never saw his work published, the Bureau of American Ethnology finally produced the Natick Dictionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803222815
• ISBN13: 9780803222816
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"