Early Ute and Shoshone Vocabularies

George W. Hill, Vocabulary of the Shoshone Language (1877) George W. Hill, a Mormon Indian missionary, had taught Shoshones in their own language at Fort Limhi in 1855. He wrote Vocabulary of the Shoshone Language, published by the Deseret News in 1877, with words â&#x20AC;&#x153;spelled as phonetically as the English alphabet will allow, and with it any person may learn to speak the dialect so that an Indian can understand him.â&#x20AC;? A copy is held by the LDS Church History Library.

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Early Ute and Shoshone Vocabularies

Published on Apr 11, 2019

Utah Historical Society

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a number of Ute and Shoshone vocabularies were published in Utah. Dimick Baker Huntington prepared and printed the earliest vocabularies beginning in 1853. Others were subsequently written by the Indian interpreter Joseph A. Gebow, the LDS missionary George W. Hill, and the zoologist and ethnographer Ralph V. Chamberlin. Recently, Huntington’s first edition of the earliest Ute and Shoshone vocabulary, thought to be lost, was discovered in two copies—one published, the other unbound galley proofs. Both rare copies are now housed at the LDS Church History Library. For more information about this edition, see the summer 2015 issue of the Utah Historical Quarterly.

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Early Ute and Shoshone Vocabularies

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Ute and Shoshone Vocabulary 1853

Ute and Shoshone Vocabulary 1853 Proofs

A Few Words in the Utah and Sho-sho-ne Dialects 1854

Vocabulary of the Utah and Sho-sho-ne or Snake Dialetcs 1872

Vocabulary of the Snake or Shoshone Dialect 1859

Vocabulary of the Shoshone Language 1877

Animal names and Anatomical Terms of the Goshute Indians 1908