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“Umatilla
Dictionary”
by
Noel Rude
(Forthcoming 2010)
This project is the making of a Umatilla-English dictionary with
English-Umatilla component.
Example sentences accompany each dictionary entry, and (where such
information is available) equivalent and/or cognate vocabulary is
supplied from the other Sahaptin dialects.
There are also entries for every grammatical morpheme.
Included are grammatical paradigms (tense/aspect, pronouns,
kinship terms), some color photos and an audio CD with examples of the
Umatilla language.
Sahaptin is an American Indian language of the middle Columbia and Snake
River region within the Southern Plateau of the Pacific Northwest of the
United States. There are
three dialect clusters, Northwest, Northeast, and Columbia River, with
Umatilla a part of the Columbia River group.
Sahaptin and Nez Perce uniquely constitute the Sahaptian Language
family (see project narrative for diagram).
The publication of Haruo Aoki’s Nez Perce Dictionary
(University of California Press, 1994) has enhanced the study of this
important language family.
This dictionary will complement that resource.
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