Passamaquoddy - Maliseet Dictionary

Mi'kmaq - Maliseet Institute
UNB Libraries' Electronic Text Centre

This dictionary is now available in both this electronic edition and in a glorious hardcover book. The online version has over 16,500 entries. The book has over 18,000.

The editors-in-chief of the dictionary are David A. Francis Sr., a Passamaquoddy elder at Sipayik (Pleasant Point), near Eastport, Maine, and Robert M. Leavitt, the now retired Director of the Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute at the University of New Brunswick.

This dictionary site allows you to do a number of things:

• View an alphabetic list by Maliseet-Passamaquoddy words starting with:
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• Search the dictionary for Maliseet-Passamaquoddy terms:
  
    
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• Check how to pronounce the words:
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More Information on the Book:

In Canada Publication by Goose Lane Editions. Publication and order information Also available at the University of New Brunswick Bookstore, independent booksellers such as Westminster Books (Fredericton), and Chapters stores in New Brunswick In the United States Publication by the University of Maine Press, Orono Publication supervised by Michael Alpert Press and Media Clips Article in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner about the dictionary and the January 13, 2009 reception at the UNB Wu Centre CBC News story Bangor Daily News article Short article in the December 9, 2008 edition of the St. Croix Courier (no online version) Article by Michael R. Brown in The Quoddy Tides, November 28, 2008 (no online version) WCSH - TV announcement Article entitled "New dictionary halps to save Passamaquoddy oral tradition" by Edward French in The Quoddy Tides, December 12, 2008 (no online version) A brief notice in the Woodstock Bugle-Observer Martin, Catherine (2009). Labour of love. Atlantic Books Today (Spring), 16-17. Used here with permission of the publisher. A timely article from the Telegraph Journal on educating naive youth in aboriginal languages. David Francis, author, speaks about the dictionary at its launch in Point Pleasant, ME (WAV file) Margaret (Dolly) Apt, Community Research Coordinator, speaks at the same occasion (WAV file)

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Conditions of use.

This Digital Collection was partially funded under contract to the SchoolNet Digital Collections program, Industry Canada.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. SBR-9601540 and SBR-0001949. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

More information on the languages of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples may be found at the Government of Canada's Web Site for this subject.

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Last update: 2006/06
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