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Explore a landmark Choctaw language dictionary that opens old texts to modern readers.
The book presents Cyrus Byington’s long‑planned dictionary of Choctaw, with notes from editors and scholars. It includes an English–Choctaw index to help locate where terms appear and how they relate to English words.
- Original manuscript work and multiple revisions that capture Byington’s careful approach to language.
- Phonetic guidance, nasalization marks, and a system that maps Choctaw sounds to familiar letters.
- An emphasis on how words function in speech, with notes on dialect differences and historical context.
- Editorial background that preserves much of the original material while organizing it for study.
Ideal for readers of linguistics, historical language study, and those interested in Choctaw culture and translation history.
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Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith for publication, with your approval, as a bulletin of this Bureau the manuscript of "A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language," by the late Cyrus Byington, under the editorship of Dr. John R. Swanton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
About the Author
John R. Swanton was the most prolific author with the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology. He produced twenty works on the American Indian, among them The Indian Tribes of North American and The Indians of the Southeastern United States.
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