Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 17

Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America, their characteristics and uses, their historical relationships, and the history of research on these languages. Fold-out, color, volume map.A specialist in Algonquian languages, Ives Goddard is curator and senior linguist in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.Part of the acclaimed encyclopedia of native North American peoples, the book has 27 chapters on languages spoken by American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts.