A Chickasaw Dictionary

这是一个完成Chickasaw词典的项目，Chickasaw是俄克拉何马州中南部的一种语言。与俄克拉何马州和密西西比州使用的乔克陶语一起，奇卡索语构成了马斯科吉语系的四个分支之一，马斯科吉语系是北美印第安语的主要语系之一。一本语言词典对于切卡索的剩余使用者和试图从美洲印第安人语言的残存片段中拼凑出了解这些语言之间的关系以及这些语言在非印第安人人口扩张到土著人民聚居区之前在新世界的地理分布情况的语言学家来说都是重要的。

This is a project to complete a dictionary of Chickasaw, a language spoken in south central Oklahoma. Together with Choctaw, which is spoken in Oklahoma and Mississippi, Chickasaw constitutes one of the four divisions of the Muskogean language family, which is one of the major families of North American Indian languages. A dictionary of the language is important both for the remaining speakers of Chickasaw and for linguists attempting to piece together from surviving fragments of American Indian languages an understanding of how these languages were related to each other and their geographical distribution in the New World prior to the disruptions and relocations attendant on non-Indian population expansion into the areas inhabited by indigenous peoples.