@article{470841,
  author     = {Kimball, Geoffrey},
  journal    = {International Journal of American Linguistics},
  number     = {2},
  pages      = {273–280},
  title      = {Natchez Cannibal Speech},
  url        = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664482},
  volume     = {78},
  year       = {2012},
  abstract   = {Between 1934 and 1936, Mary R. Haas did extensive fieldwork on the Natchez language, which was near death, with only two fluent speakers remaining. However, they both maintained a tradition of verbal art, and Watt Sam, with his extensive repertoire consisting of traditional Natchez tales and ones translated out of Creek and Cherokee, was a master storyteller. Mary Haas's intensive efforts resulted in the collection of dozens of examples of Natchez oral literature. One of the features of this literature was a special speech register for cannibal characters, which was a form of Natchez with distinctive morphological and lexical characteristics.},
  doi        = {10.1086/664482},
  issn       = {0020-7071},
  lgcode     = {Natchez [natc1249]},
  macro_area = {North America},
  src        = {haspelmath}
}