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This vol., a modern reworking of the mss. of Johann Jacob Schmick, is in the “Moravian” dialect of Mahican and is divided into an English-Mahican-German section and a Mahican-English section. It includes a Mahican historical phonology and a background and explanatory description. This dictionary is useful for Indians of the East Coast who want to know their ancestral languages better, for of course Algonquianists, whether as linguists or ethnohistorians, for
Germanists, and for general readers who want some background on Schmnick’s era in Pennsylvania. The explanatory background can also be used as a study of linguistic influences. Maps.
— Ken Mynter
"Masthay has rendered a tremendous service by painstakingly deciphering the handwritten manuscript, translating the eighteenth-century German, and bringing the whole into a usable order…[This book] makes available more documentation of the language than ever before."
— Marianne Mithun
"WIth this publication…the accessibility of the extant documentation of the extinct Mahican language has been immeasurably improved."
— Ives Goddard
"This book is especially important in that it represents the only published lexicon of the Mahican language…A valuable contribution to Algonquian lexicography and to American Indian philology in general."
— David J. Costa
"A valuable addition to the literature on the Indian languages of the Northeast. It performs an important service in making available in an easy-to-use format, not only to linguists, but to a wide range of interested scholars, an extensive amount of hitherto unpublished data in an extinct Algonquian language."
— George F. Aubin