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SENĆOŦEN
A Dictionary of the Saanich Language
The SENĆOŦEN language historically has been spoken on the Saanich Peninsula of southern Vancouver Island and islands in the Strait of Georgia, today divided by the US-Canada border. SENĆOŦEN—also...
ISBN: 9780295743851
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)
Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators...
ISBN: 9780295743769
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Klallam Grammar
Klallam is the language of the Lower Elwha Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, and Jamestown S’Klallam Tribes. It is spoken on the north shore of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula from the Strait...
ISBN: 9780295994611
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Umatilla Dictionary
Umatilla Dictionary documents the language of the Umatilla people east of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. Working for many years with the accumulated scholarship of linguists...
ISBN: 9780295994284
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Wiyaxayxt / Wiyaakaa'awn / As Days Go By
Our History, Our Land, Our People -- The Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla
This book represents a new vista, looking past the days when there were two distinct groups-those who were studied and those who studied them. This history of the Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla...
ISBN: 9780295986234
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Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories
Reflections on Humanity
This reader for advanced students of Chinese presents ten post-1990 short stories by prominent writers such as Su Tong and Yu Hua, whose novels Raise the Red Lantern and To Live served as the basis...
ISBN: 9780295983653
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Documenting China
A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-Century Texts
Documenting China brings together a series of linked texts, each one chosen for its impact when first published, and which together chart the core developments in twentieth-century Chinese...
ISBN: 9780295991276
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Ichishkíin Sinwit Yakama / Yakima Sahaptin Dictionary
Sahaptin, or Ichishkíin Sínwit (literally, "this language"), is a Plateau Penutian language spoken in south-central Washington and northern Oregon. This dictionary documents the dialect of Sahaptin...
ISBN: 9780295989150
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Klallam Dictionary
With the help of elders, educators, and tribal councils of the Klallam Tribes at Elwha, Port Gamble, and Jamestown, Washington, and Becher Bay on Vancouver Island, Timothy Montler has compiled a...
ISBN: 9780295992075
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Squamish-English Dictionary
This dictionary is the first published compilation by the Squamish Nation of Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim, one of ten Coast Salish languages. The Squamish peoples' traditional homeland includes the territory...
ISBN: 9780295990224
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Xiaoyuan Hanyu / Speaking Chinese on Campus
A Textbook for Intermediate Chinese Courses
Xiaoyuan Hanyu responds to the practical needs of college students with a text that presents natural and idiomatic Chinese along with concise English instruction. Originally developed at the University...
ISBN: 9780295983288
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Chung ta noi . . . Conversational Vietnamese
An Intermediate Text
This intermediate language text, written for those who already have a basic knowledge of Vietnamese, stresses conversational skills. The goal is to help students communicate effectively and absorb...
ISBN: 9780295980898
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Sm'algyax
A Reference Dictionary and Grammar of the Coast Tsimshian Language
In the mid-1970s, Sm’algyax, the language of the Coast Tsimshian people, came under the protection of Canada’s Urgent Ethnology Programme, which commissioned a dictionary by linguist John Dunn....
ISBN: 9780295974194
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Lushootseed Dictionary
A celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, this book is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of Thom Hess’s Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976)....
ISBN: 9780295973234
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