Short description:

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.
 

Long description:

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.
 

Table of Contents:

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