Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. The book includes an overview of their special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, and a catalogue of the languages detailing their locations, genetic affiliations, number of speakers, and major structural features, and listing published material on them.

Indians of North America --- Languages. --- -American aborigines --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Languages --- Culture --- Ethnology --- North and Central American indian languages