The pronunciation of a word represented in an alphabetic writing system (such as this one) is relatively transparent--but a language's sounds change over time and vary across space, while its spellings remain relatively static, resulting in some amount of divergence between the written and spoken forms. The introduction of loanwords and…

Approximately 7,500 entries are included in this Nengone-English dictionary. (Its counterpart, the English-Nengone dictionary, is to be published separately in the same series.) Each entry appears with its index number, part of speech, definition, and an example of its usage. The orthography used throughout is that of the London Mission Society…

The present dictionary of spoken Manchu has been prepared especially for the reader of Japanese, with prefatory remarks by the author and a detailed description of Manchu phonology presented in Japanese. The 3,061 entries contained in the main section are grouped according to semantic categories and appear first in Manchu, in both phonemic and…

The dictionary of stems, roots, and affixes for the Blackfoot language provides, for each entry, information on the item's morphological type (e.g., noun stem, verb stem, root), subclassification if relevant, English index, and certain diagnostic inflectional forms (full words or sentences), each with an English translation. In addition, entries…