Chickasaw

• Pamela Munro & Catherine Willmond, Chickasaw: An Analytical Dictionary. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1995. 608 pp. $39.95. ---The first scholarly dictionary of the Chickasaw dialect of Choctaw-Chickasaw, a Muskogean language now spoken in southeastern Oklahoma. It is the product of a collaboration between a linguist (Munro) and a native speaker (Willmond). The Chickasaw-English section has approximately 12,000 main entries, secondary entries, and cross-references. There is a shorter English-Chicasaw index, and an extensive introductory section that provides a synopsis of Chickasaw morphosyntax. --- Order from: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, P.O. Box 787, Norman, OK 73070-0787 (tel: 1-800-627-7377). Add $2.50 for postage and handling. [April 1995]
• Audio-Forum (96 Broad St., Guilford, CT 06437; 1-800-243-1234) offers a Chickasaw "sampler", including a brief introduction to some of the most common words and phrases, such as greetings, food names, weather phases, etc. The speaker is Pauline Walker. 1 cassette (30 minutes) and a 14 pp. booklet. $12.95. [Order # AFCH10].