1950 A Stem Vocabulary of the Navaho Language-2 Vols-Berard Haile

Description: A Stem Vocabulary of the Navaho Language, in two volumes by Berard Haile. Published by St. Michaels Press in Arizona. 1950-51, Vol. 1: 340pp, Vol. 2: 327pp, both volumes: 7 x 9.5", 8vo, softcover binding. Both volumes are in fair condition with some exterior age-related wear and use. A fair amount of creasing to both volumes' spines, along with chipping to edges of boards. There are red and blue pen markings and notations, from the previous owner, on the front boards and sporadically throughout each folio. Additionally, the previous owner's black-ink faculty stamp remains on each cover, and title page. General age-related toning and foxing to exteriors and interiors of each folio. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. Scarce set of a two volume set on the study of Navaho, or Navajo, a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dene family of languages, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America. Navajo is spoken primarily in the Southwestern United States, especially in the Navajo Nation, one of a few indigenous nations whose reservation lands overlap its traditional homelands. Navajo is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages and is most widely spoken north of Mexico and near the United States border. The author of these volumes is Berard Haile (1874-1961) a Franciscan priest and one of the foremost authorities on Navajo anthropology. He served at St. Michael’s Mission, a Franciscan mission to the Navajo at St. Michaels, Arizona, from 1901 to 1954, where he developed an interest in Navajo language and culture, and helped devise a written alphabet of the Navajo language.This specific set of books once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar and collector of obscure dictionaries, Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967) 'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages' '. Rahder's black-inked Yale University faculty stamp and pen markings can be found throughout these folios. FORN-SHELF-749-1223-eb0544

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