Dictionary of Louisiana Creole
By: Albert Valdman ... [et al.].
Contributors: Valdman, Albert.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng; cpf; fre
Number of pages: 656
Subjects: Creole dialects, French -- Louisiana -- Dictionaries -- English.
Description: "This important reference work has been compiled from existing written sources dating back to 1850 and from material collected in Bayou Teche, the German Coast, Pointe Coupee, and St. Tammany Parish." "The Dictionary Features: an informative User's Guide, including details on orthography and the design of the dictionary articles; a grammatical sketch of the language; a guide to variant pronunciations; English and French meaning equivalents; creole contextual examples; identification of where examples were collected, with special notation for historical items (i.e., pre-1960); two indexes: a French-Creole index and an English-Creole index; and rich cultural information, with many examples of folklore, traditional medicine, religious beliefs, and agricultural practices."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: English, Louisiana French Creole, and French.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.