ISBN: 0-927534-79-7
528 pp. | paper | $21.00 

Dorothy Bray, editor in collaboration with the White Mountain Apache tribe

This exhaustive bilingual dictionary is the culmination of years of collaboration between educators, linguistic scholars, and community informants of the White Mountain and San Carlos Apache communities. It has been compiled with the goal of creating a living, working dictionary that will be of value for cultural, educational, and practical purposes. Among these are the teaching of Western Apache to children, the retention and expansion of the oral and written languages, and the preservation of traditional ceremonial songs and oral history. More widely, the dictionary will be useful to Apaches and non-Apaches in practical applications such as medicine, social work, education, and human services. It also provides through its definitions a wealth of culture, history, and lore supplied by the many community informants.

In addition to the dictionary proper, which consists of two sections (Apache-English and English-Apache), the volume includes practical phonetic transcriptions and a pronunciation guide, clarifies current writing conventions for Western Apache, and gives a practical morphosyntactic description of key features of the language (e.g., verb constructions, affixes, pronominal constructions, and particles).

Dorothy Bray recently retired from her faculty position at Central Arizona College.