Andean Aymara

The writers, Virginia Beavert and Sharon Hargus have authored the dictionary, which comes with over 9000 sound files.  According to the University of Washington Press:
Sahaptin, or Ichishkíin Sínwit (literally, “this language”), is a Plateau Penutian language spoken in south-central Washington and northern Oregon. This dictionary documents the dialect of Sahaptin that is spoken by the [...]

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David Eberhard has published his Mamaindê grammar with the LOT dissertation series (236).  The abstract can be seen on the LinguistList. An excerpt can be found here.
Cross-posted from Leo Wetzels’  Amazonian Linguistics website.
Incidentally, the TLS has a review of a new collection, published in Gallimard’s Bilbiothèque de la Pléiade, of Lévi-Strauss’s collected works. Wilcken writes:
The Pléiade edition [...]

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