Social Science Native American Studies
practical writing system and short dictionary of Kwakw'ala (Kwakiutl)
- Publisher
- Canadian Museum of History
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1977
- Category
- Native American Studies, Multi-Language Dictionaries
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772821970
- Publish Date
- Jan 1977
- List Price
- $11.99
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The author outlines a practical orthography for Kwakw’ala, the language spoken by the Kwagulh (Kwakiutl), of coastal British Columbia. In the first section he describes its use with a progression from the most familiar phonemes and symbols to the least while the second offers a functional exemplification in the form of cross-indexed Kwakw’ala-English (approximately 4,000 entries) and English-Kwakw’ala (about 12,000 entries) dictionaries.