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    Natchez Analytical Dictionary

    Geoffrey D. Kimball (Author)

    9781496240354

    Hardback, published 1 August 2025

    480 pages, 6 photographs, 1 illustration, 131 tables
    25.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    “This dictionary will be a boon not only to language learners but also to the fields of linguistics, anthropology, ethnography, and Indigenous Studies, helping us understand more about these people of the great Mississippian culture of North America.”-David V. Kaufman, author of Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories: Language, Archaeology, and Ethnography
    “Natchez is not for the faint of heart, and Geoffrey Kimball not only shows mastery of the complexities but has managed to explain things cleanly and clearly. He has made sense of all historical layers of documentation, not a simple task, in light of what can be learned from the careful work of Mary R. Haas, and it is wonderful to see all of these facts assembled clearly in one place.”-Marianne Mithun, author of The Languages of Native North America

    In Natchez Analytical Dictionary Geoffrey Kimball offers the first comprehensive dictionary of the Natchez language, a now extinct Native American language originally spoken in the region surrounding Natchez, Mississippi, and finally in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Based primarily on the extensive fieldwork of world-renowned linguist Mary R. Haas, the dictionary also contains material collected earlier by linguists and anthropologists such as Victor Riste, John R. Swanton, Albert S. Gatschet, Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson, Albert Pike, and Albert S. Gallatin.

    The Natchez language-whose lack of accurate available lexical material has perplexed modern linguists-has long been thought to be related to the Muskogean languages. Kimball’s Natchez Analytical Dictionary fills this critical gap for comparative, historical linguistics.
     

    List of Illustrations
    Preface
    Acknowledgments

    Introduction
    The Natchez Speakers and the Linguists Who Worked with Them
    Isalakti
    Albert S. Gallatin
    Anonymous
    Albert Pike
    John Laslie
    Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson
    Albert Samuel Gatschet
    Creek Sam
    Charlie Jumper
    Watt Sam
    Nancy Raven
    Peggy Leaf
    John Reed Swanton
    Victor Riste
    Mary Rosamond Haas
    Discussion of Dictionary Entries
    Word Classes
    Alphabetical Order
    Pronunciation
    Word Division
    Indication of Data Sources
    Example Sentences
    Diachronic and Idiolectal Variation
    Notes
    References

    Natchez–English Dictionary
    Affixes
    Auxiliary Elements

    English–Natchez Glossary

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