Tonkawa texts : a new linguistic edition /
This book represents the entire remaining oral literature of the Tonkawa people, edited and presented in the original Tonkawa and translated into English along with a wholly new and up-to-date grammatical description. It consists of two different kinds of stories, Night Stories, set in the pre-human...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English North American Indian (Other) |
| Language Notes: | Text in English and Tonkawa. |
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | This book represents the entire remaining oral literature of the Tonkawa people, edited and presented in the original Tonkawa and translated into English along with a wholly new and up-to-date grammatical description. It consists of two different kinds of stories, Night Stories, set in the pre-human mythological past and Old Stories, in which humans get caught up in unexpected adventures. |
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| Item Description: | "Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas Initaitive, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--Title page. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 299 pages : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780806158990 0806158999 9780806159881 080615988X |