Richard A. Rhodes

Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.

Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary

Alfred F. Majewicz

Werner Winter

The Aborigines of Sakhalin

Chicago (see Zhgaagong, which may mean ""Place of the Skunk""). Kemo Sabe (see Giimoozaabi, which may mean ""he looks out in secret""), and Giche-gumi (from Longfellow's poem, see gchigami) are all words that came originally from algonquian languages and can be found in this dictionary. These languages have also given English such words as ""moccasin"" and ""wigwam"". In addition, words such as ""fire water"" (for hard liquor or whiskey) are direct translations from Algonquian languages. This 9,000 word dictionary gives information on the Ojibwa language, which is still spoken by over 45,000.

This dictionary is written for three audiences: first, native speakers of Ojibwa, Chippewa, and Ottawa who would like to have a consistent way to write their language, especially those who are engaged in teaching their language to others; second, students of the Ojibwa, Chippewa, and Ottawa language who need a reference work they can turn to; and finally, the scholarly world in general, particularly Algonquianists and linguists.

Patrick McConvell

Tom Güldemann

Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

The Language of Hunter-Gatherers

Volume 1,The Aborigines of Sakhalin, contains translations into English of the Polish, Russian and Japanese material on, for example, the history, folklore, economic life, shamanism, sexual life, medical anthropology, and the bear festival which has been published between 1898 and 1936, mainly in local journals which are hardly accessible today. English, French and German articles appear in the original language.

Richard A. Rhodes

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