Introduction

 

Choctaw is a Muskogean language spoken by several hundred members of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and by several thousand members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

This dictionary of Choctaw was compiled by Rev. Cyrus Byington (1793–1868), a missionary to the Choctaw in Mississippi and Indian Territory. The manuscript was first edited by John R. Swanton and Henry S. Halbert and published in 1915. This second edition is the first electronic edition and corrects the spelling used in the first edition.

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