34.1210, Books: Thomas W. Alford's Shawnee Translation of the Gospels in Normalized Orthography and with Glossary: Schaefer (ed.), Alford (tr.)

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Date: 08-Apr-2023
From: Joshua Snider [mundartpress at yahoo.com]
Subject: Thomas W. Alford's Shawnee Translation of the Gospels in Normalized Orthography and with Glossary


Title: Thomas W. Alford's Shawnee Translation of the Gospels in
Normalized Orthography and with Glossary
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Mundart Press
Book URL: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thomas-w-alfords-shawnee-tr
anslation-of-the-gospels-in-normalized-orthography-and-with-glossary-c
arl-schaefer/1142917862?ean=9798986545028

translator: Thomas W. Alford
editor: Carl Schaefer
Paperback: ISBN: 9798986545028 Pages: 484 Price: U.S. $ $35.00
Abstract:

Thomas W. Alford's Shawnee Translation of the Gospels in Normalized
Orthography and With Glossary: This book is an edition of Thomas W.
Alford's The Four Gospels of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Shawnee Indian
Language, published in 1929. Alford's original orthography was
idiosyncratic, and some of his conventions obscured the precise
phonological representation of words. The book lacked a glossary, and
since it did not include Alford's English source (the English Revised
Version) in parallel with Shawnee translation, it is difficult for a
non-Shawnee speaker to engage on any level with his translation. This
edition presents Alford's translation in the standard orthography
adopted by the Shawnee Tribe. It includes Alford's English source, in
verse-by-verse parallel with the Shawnee. In addition, it includes a
glossary of 9,600 Shawnee word-forms grouped under 4,050 lexical
headwords. Each headword is annotated for lexical class and meaning;
each inflected word-form is annotated for morphological attributes.
Shawnee (Saawanwatoweewe) is the heritage language of the Shawnee
Tribe, the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and the
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Shawnee (sjw)

Language Family(ies): Algonquian

Areal Regions: Algonquian

Written In: English (eng)

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