A DICTIOMM OF THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES 



(ACCOMPANIKD WITH THIRTY-ONE BILOXI TEXTS AND NUMEROUS BILOXI PHRASES) , 



By James Owen Dorset and John R. Swanton 



INTRODUCTION 



The Biloxi material contained in this bulletin, along with a vast 

 amount of similar character, was left in an unfinished condition by the 

 untimely death of the Rev. James Owen Dorsey, by whom the most 

 of it was collected. The care and thoroughness of Mr. Dorsey's work 

 have rendered that of his scientific editor comparatively trifling. He 

 had already incorporated into his Biloxi dictionary all of the separate 

 words and phrases, and had added all of the words in the first twenty or 

 thirty pages of text. The texts were already provided with interlinear 

 and connected translations and notes. Had Mr. Dorsey's plan for 

 publication been carried out it would have been necessary merely to 

 finish extracting words from the texts and to add a few corrections to 

 the notes accompanying them. The present method of arranging dic- 

 tionaries of Indian tribes, however, has rendered it necessary to bring- 

 together Mr. Dorsey's cards under various stems, and to convert the 

 English-Biloxi part into a directory for finding the stem under which 

 any given word is listed. This rearrangement and the historical 

 account of the Biloxi are nearly everything in this material to which 

 the scientific editor can lay claim. 



The following list of Biloxi phonetics is substantially the same as 

 that given by Mr. Dorsey himself in his vice-presidential address on 

 Biloxi before Section H of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, at Madison, Wisconsin, August, 1893. Since that 

 time, however, the usage of students of Indian languages regarding 

 the application of certain signs has changed, and in addition it has 

 seemed advisable to make changes in some of the other signs. 



a as m father. 



a as in ^waZ (Dorsey's «). 



a as aw in law. 



