JOSHUA JACOB SNIDER
Joshua has been studying secondary languages since 1992 and secondary Germanic languages since 1994. He reads all fifteen official modern written Germanic languages and is fluent in English, German, Dutch/Flemish, and Swedish. His Mennonite grandparents’ native tongue was Pennsylvania German, a Frankish language similar to Yiddish. Snider, who also has Native American family, has translated and published a comparative Algonquian grammar from Dutch and has published a Meskwaki (Fox) dictionary for the Smithsonian Institution, both through Mundart Press. He is currently translating the Itzik Kipnis novel ‘Months and Days’ and working on several other publishing projects.
Books
OUTLINE FOR A COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF SOME ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES
A comparative grammar of five Algonquian Native American languages, this book treats most parts of speech and provides a solid introduction to the major important morphological features of this family its languages. Updated with recent work in the field.