Project Gutenberg 2007-08-03 Public domain in the USA. 372 Gibbs, George 1815 1873 Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi Reading ease score: 80.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by David Starner, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallam and Lummi" by George Gibbs is a linguistic reference written in the mid-19th century. This scholarly work focuses on documenting the vocabulary and linguistic features of the Clallam and Lummi tribes, indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. The book explores both languages, highlighting their differences and similarities, and aims to contribute to the understanding of Native American languages in the broader context of cultural and linguistic studies. The opening of the work introduces the setting and peoples of the Clallam and Lummi tribes, detailing their geographical locations, linguistic affiliations, and several intriguing phonetic features of their languages. Gibbs describes the locales inhabited by these tribes, emphasizing the significant elements of their languages, such as the frequent occurrence of nasal sounds and unique vowel pronunciations. Additionally, he mentions his efforts in collecting vocabulary during his time with the N.W. Boundary Commission, providing an overview of the structure and content of the vocabularies he compiled, setting the stage for the extensive linguistic data that follows. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Indians of North America -- Languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. PM Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Language & Communication 171822 171823 2024-10-09T14:36:57.156600 2023-09-10T06:07:37.094307 text/html text/html 178697 2007-08-03T09:03:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 41659 2007-08-03T09:04:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 129909 2024-10-09T14:37:08.127542 application/epub+zip 130737 2024-10-09T14:37:01.349583 application/epub+zip 112068 2024-10-09T14:36:59.777554 application/epub+zip 343710 2024-10-09T14:37:11.634641 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 407304 2024-10-09T14:37:07.010517 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 373206 2022-09-10T12:05:21.889556 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 87357 2024-10-09T14:36:54.913592 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 87075 2007-08-03T09:03:14 text/plain; charset=utf-8 34635 2007-08-03T09:04:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 84706 2007-08-03T09:03:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 34360 2007-08-03T09:04:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 85856 2007-08-03T09:03:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 33879 2007-08-03T09:04:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22525 2024-10-09T14:37:11.782511 application/rdf+xml 17308 2024-10-09T14:37:00.399547 image/jpeg 3705 2024-10-09T14:37:00.081577 image/jpeg 127962 2024-10-09T14:36:57.169592 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia