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Indian Languages of the Americas

updated 10-23-2003 The languages of the Indians of the Americas exhibit great diversity in both vocabulary and grammar. In the 1920's, Edward Sapir proposed 6 "superstocks", or very large, general groupings based on grammatical similarities for the Indian languages north of Mexico: Eskimo-Aleut, Nadene, Algonkian, Hokan-Siouan, Penutian, and Aztec- Tanoan. Today, these groupings are generally recognized as families, with the following changes: Eskimo-Aleut is now called Inuit-Aleut, Algonkian has been broadened to Algonkian-Mosan, and the latter 2 have been combined into a new, larger family called Macro-Penutian. (In 1960-1970, Joseph Greenberg lumped Algonkian-Mosan, Hokan- Siouan and Macro-Penutian into a proto-proto-language he called Amerind. This classi- fication is still widely contested by many linguists, and is not used in this work.) Many of the languages of Mexico and Central America have been found to fall into one of these families.

Linguists also now generally recognize 4 other language families in Central and South America: Andean-Equatorial, Ge-Pano-Carib, Macro-Chibchan, and Oto-Manguean. Listed here are very general works on American Indian languages as well as those works which contain information on too many languages to be separately listed under each. See also each of the families listed above. 305.897073 American Indian studies / Dane Morrison, editor. -- New York : A512 P. Lang, 1997 RID: 96-50438 ITEM #: nai00033 863.62 Andersson, Theodore, 1903- O15Za Carlos Maria Ocantos, Argentine novelist. -- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1934 RID: --- ITEM #: spa00781 497 Bibliographie americaniste ... X B582 RID: 75-378226 ITEM #: nai00001 497.3 A Bibliography of Algonquian linguistics X B582 RID: 75-313646 ITEM #: nai00002 497 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 B662i Introduction to Handbook ... RID: 65-19467 ITEM #: nai00003 497.5 Bright, William, 1928- X Bibliography of the languages ... B855b RID: 82-3331 ITEM #: nai00004 970.02 Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953- C163n New worlds for all. -- [S.l.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 RID: 96-20625 ITEM #: nai00034 978 Catlin, George, 1796-1872 C365n North American Indians. -- New York : Viking, 1989 RID: 88-40484 ITEM #: nai00050 497 Comparative studies in Amerindian ... C737 RID: 71-165147 ITEM #: nai00005 422.97 Cutler, Charles L C989o O brave new words! : Native American loanwords in current English. -- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1994 RID: 94-15764 ITEM #: nai00035 970.1 Eagle Walking Turtle E11i Indian America. -- Santa Fe, N.M. : John Muir Publications, 1993 1993 RID: 93-12606 ITEM #: nai00036 700.897 Feest, Christian F F2958n Native arts of North America. -- New York : Thames and Hudson, 1992 RID: 92-82579 ITEM #: nai00037 818.54 Glancy, Diane G545c Claiming breath. -- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1992. RID: 91-24637 ITEM #: nai00029 497.3 Hanzeli, Victor Egon, 1925- H252m Misionary linguistics in New France RID: 76-87278 ITEM #: nai00006 979.400497 Heizer, Robert Fleming, 1915- H4738n The natural world of the California Indians. -- [S.l.] : University of California Press, 1980 RID: 79-65092 ITEM #: nai00038 497 Hervas laboratories of American linguistics. H577b Bulletin RID: wln76-118977 ITEM #: nai00007 497.09794 Hinton, Leanne H666f Flutes of fire : essays on California Indian languages. -- Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, 1994 RID: --- ITEM #: nai00039 SI Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 2.3: Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico. -- 30 Washington : v. 1-2 Doc. Ref. RID: 07-35198 ITEM #: nai00031 SI Index to Schoolcraft's Indian tribes of the United States / 2.3: compiled by Frances S. Nichols. -- Washington : 152 RID: wln80-11595 ITEM #: nai00032 497.05 International journal of American linguistics I61 RID: 22-9284 ITEM #: nai00008 497.1 Inuktitut et langues amerindiennes ... I61 RID: 80-140906 ITEM #: nai00009 975.5 Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 J457no Notes on the State of Virginia. -- Chapel Hill : published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1955 RID: 55-14659 ITEM #: nai00040 970.1 Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 J54i The Indians of Canada. -- Toronto : University of 1977 Toronto Press, 1977. Rid: 78-311022 ITEM #: nai00041 497 Kaufman, Terrence, 1937- K21i Idiomas de Mesoamerica RID: 76-501923 ITEM #: nai00010 497 The Languages of Native America L287 RID: 79-65784 ITEM #: nai00011 497.2 Leer, Jeff L486p Proto-Athabaskan verb stem ... RID: 80-622238 ITEM #: nai00012 497 Linguistic Society of America L755a American Indian languages ... RID: 76-375647 ITEM #: nai00013 497 Ludewig, Hermann Ernst, d. 1856 X The literature of American ... L944L 1858 RID: 01-14440 ITEM #: nai00014 Q Mayers, Marvin Keene, 1927- , ed. 498 Languages of Guatemala M468L RID: 65-28171 ITEM #: nai00015 497.4 Mesoamerican writing systems M582 RID: 73-93086 ITEM #: nai00016 497 Mithun, Marianne M6841L The languages of native North America. -- [S.l.] : Cambridge University Press, 1999 RID: 98-53576 ITEM #: nai00042 971.100497 Muckle, Robert James M942f The First Nations of British Columbia. -- [S.l.] : UBC Press, 1998 RID: 98-167112 ITEM #: nai00043 497 Native languages of the Americas N278 RID: 76-28216 ITEM #: nai00017 819.09 Native writers and Canadian writing. -- Vancouver : N2787 RID: 90-215019 ITEM #: nai00018 497 Newberry library, Chicago. Edward E. Ayer Collection X A bibliographical check list ... N534b RID: 43-3105 ITEM #: nai00019 498 Ortiz, Sergio Elias, 1894- O77e Estudios sobre linguistica ... RID: 55-56524 ITEM #: nai00020 497 Pacific Northwest Indian Reading and Language Development Program P117p Policies and procedures ... RID: wln86-96757 ITEM #: nai00021 970.00497 Pritzker, Barry P9614n Native Americans. -- [S.l.] : ABC-CLIO, 1998 RID: 98-21718 ITEM #: nai00044 970.1 Rawls, James J R261c Chief Red Fox is dead. -- Fort Worth, Tex. : Harcourt Brace College Pub, 1996 RID: 95-80946 ITEM #: nai00045 970.62 The Red swan / edited by John Bierhost. -- Albuquerque : R312 University of New Mexico Press, 1992 RID: 92-3299 ITEM #: nai00046 497 Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 S241a American Indian languages. -- [S.l.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990- RID: --- ITEM #: ine00023 497 Sherzer, Joel S554a An areal-typological study ... RID: 75-20258 ITEM #: nai00023 497 Silver, Shirley S587a American Indian languages / Shirley Silver and Wick R. Miller. -- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1997 RID: 97-4817 ITEM #: nai00047 978 Smet, Pierre Jean de, 1801-1873 S638n New Indian sketches. -- Fairfield, Wash. : Ye 1985 Galleon Press, 1985 RID: 84-27021 ITEM #: nai00048 498 South American Indian languages S726 RID: 85-51429 ITEM #: nai00024 497.5 Studies in southeastern Indian languages S943 RID: 73-90840 ITEM #: nai00025 497 Studies in southwestern ethnolinguistics S933 RID: 67-96913 ITEM #: nai00026 M Tomkins, William 497 Indian sign language T658u 1969 RID: 69-13654 ITEM #: nai00027 497 Tomkins, William T658u Universal Indian sign language ... 1937 RID: wln86-109036 ITEM #: nai00028 305.897077 Usner, Daniel H U86a American Indians in the lower Mississippi Valley. -- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1998 RID: 98-20925 ITEM #:P nai00049

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