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Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

9/1/1975 - 8/31/1976

Funding Totals

$34,465.00 (approved)
$34,465.00 (awarded)

Preparation of Basque-English Dictionary

FAIN: RT-10049-75

Desert Research Institute (Reno, NV 89512-1095)
William A. Douglas (Project Director: September 1975 to present)

Funds will be used to prepare the first Basque-English dictionary. The principal author of the dictionary will be Professor Luis Michelena of the University of Samanca, a foremost Basque linguist This will be a scholarly dictionary with detailed lexographical information, but it will also serve as a teaching aid for the Basque- Americans desirous of retaining their ancestral language.