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Title: Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi

Author: George Gibbs

Release Date: August 3, 2007 [EBook #22228]

Language: English

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SHEA'S

LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS.

XI.

AMS PRESS, INC.
NEW YORK

ALPHABETICAL VOCABULARIES

OF THE

CLALLAM AND LUMMI.

BY

GEORGE GIBBS.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

NEW YORK:
CRAMOISY PRESS.
1863.

Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected. All
other inconsistencies are as in the original. The following less common
diacritical marks have been transcribed as follows:

[=a] a with macron
[=e] e with macron
[=o] o with macron
[=u] u with macron

[)a] a with breve
[)e] e with breve
[)u] u with breve

[oe] oe ligature

^ is used to indicate 'superscript'

A table of contents, though not present in the original, has been
provided below:

Preface

Vocabulary of the Clallam
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, W, Y.

Local Nomenclature of the Clallam Tribe

Vocabulary of the Lummi
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y.

Local Nomenclature of the Lummi Tribe

Names of Lummi Chiefs

PREFACE.

The tribe of Clallams, as they are usually called by the residents of
Washington Territory--by the neighboring Indians named S'klal'am, and
denominated by themselves N[=u]s-klai y[=u]m--inhabit the southern shore
of Fuca Strait, from about the Ok[)e]ho River on the west, to Port
Townshend on the east, bordering in the first direction on the Makahs,
sometimes called Classets (the Klai