LANGUAGE

Kwe....Greeting's.
The Mi'kmaw language was one of the first indigenous languages spoken on Newfoundland island and the first language of the ancestors of many west and south coast Newfoundlanders.

The original publication and first of its kind, the 'DICTIONARY OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE MICMAC INDIANS' by Dr. Silas Tertius Rand in 1888 was followed in 1902 by 'RAND'S MICMAC DICTIONARY, A COMPANION VOLUME TO RAND'S ENGLISH-MICMAC VOCABULARY', a posthumous publication by a fellow missionary, Jeremiah S. Clark, based on Rand's research notes.

These two Mi'kmaw dictionaries, totaling 476 pages, now form the basis of the earliest written linguistic heritage of Mi'kmawi'smk, the language of the Mi'kmaw people. Both volumes have been reprinted in a convenient format and made available by Blue Griffin Books of Middleton, NS, since November, 2012, with an extensive historic, biographical and linguistic introduction by Russell A. Bragg, B.A., B.Ed., M.A. (Linguistics), a National Marshall McLuhan Fellow.

For more information contact Blue Griffin Books at (902) 363-2665, Monday to Saturday

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EMAIL: bluegriffinbooks@eastlink.ca

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