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This important reference work is compiled from existing written sources dating back to 1850 and from material collected in Bayou Teche, the German Coast, Pointe Coupee, and St. Tammany Parish. The dictionary features: a Detailed User's Guide including details on orthography and design of the dictionary articles; a grammatical sketch of the language; guide to variant pronunciations; English and French meaning equivalents; Creole contextual examples; identification of where examples were collected, with special notation for historical items (pre-1960); two indexes: A French-Creole index and an English-Creole index. With rich cultural information, many examples illustrate folklore, traditional medicine, religious beliefs, agricultural practices, and the like.
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"Remarkable. A unique record of Louisiana French Creole. The introduction itself is an important contribution to creolistics. This valuable dictionary should be of wide interest to Creole scholars, French and U. S. cultural historians, and students of the French language. There is nothing else like it." Glenn Gilbert "Valdman and his team of researchers have done what seemed an insurmountable task. Although few native speakers of Creole are left, this dictionary of Louisiana Creole will give renewed life to a language dangerously close to extinction." Choice
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- PublisherIndiana University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0253334519
- ISBN 13 9780253334510
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages672
- EditorAlbert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, Kevin J. Rottet
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