Portal:American languages

Classification of indigenous peoples of North America according to Alfred Kroeber.

General

• "Sign-Language among the American Indians" in Littell's Living Age, 146 (1884), 1835 by Archibald Sayce
• International Journal of American Linguistics, 1917-present (periodical)

Subarctic

Cree

• A grammar of the Cree language; with which is combined an analysis of the Chippeway dialect (1844) [1]
• A grammar of the Cree language, as spoken by the Cree Indians of North America (1881) [2]
• A grammar of the Cree language (1913) [3]

Northeast Woodlands

Abenaki

• New familiar Abenakis and English dialogues, the first ever published on the grammatical system (1884), by Joseph Laurent [4]
• A dictionary of the Abnaki language, in North America (1833), [5]

Algonquian

• An Algonquin Syllabary, 1906 by William Jones

Maliseet

see wikipedia article at Malecite-Passamaquoddy language

• Maliseet Vocabulary, 1899 by Author:Montague Chamberlain[6]

Mi'kmaq

• A first reading book in the Micmac language (1875), by Silas Tertius Rand [7]

Ojibwe

• Ojibway and English easy reader (1906) [8]
• Ojibwa texts (1917) [9]
• A theoretical and practical grammar of the Otchipwe language (1878) [10]

Northwest Plateau

Kutenai

• Kutenai Tales (1918) by Franz Boas, together with texts collected by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

Southwest

Navajo

• The Navaho Language (1972) [11]
• An ethnologic dictionary of the Navaho language (c1910) [12]
• Dine bizad = Navaho, his language: a handbook for beginners in the study of the Navaho language (1910) [13]

Mesoamerica

Mayan languages

• An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley (1915)