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Mrs. Haas was born in Richmond, Indiana, United States, on January 23, 1910.
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When Mary R. Haas died in 1996, she left behind several thousand pages of notes and texts in the Creek (Muskogee) language collected in Oklahoma from 1936 to 1940. The majority of the texts come from the unpublished writings of James H. Hill of Eufaula, an especially knowledgeable elder who composed texts for Dr. Haas using the standard Creek alphabet. Twelve other speakers served as sources for dictated texts. When Mary R. Haas died in 1996, she left behind several thousand pages of notes and texts in the Creek (Muskogee) language collected in Oklahoma from 1936 to 1940. The majority of the texts come from the unpublished writings of James H. Hill of Eufaula, an especially knowledgeable elder who composed texts for Dr. Haas using the standard Creek alphabet. Twelve other speakers served as sources for dictated texts.
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This is the first new Thai-English dictionary by an American Scholar to appear in over twenty years. It includes many new words and new uses of old words that have entered the language since Wold War II, an it employs the latest official spellin of words (based on the Thai-Thai Government Dictionary of 1950), with some older spellings cross-referenced to the present spelling. Its 20,000 entries are presented in a sinle alphabetical listing: standard vocabulary items, names of people and organizations, place names, and abbreviatiions. The pronunciation of words is shown in a scientific writing which includes five tones, stress within rhythm groups, and intonation whenever clauses or sentences are cited. The pronunciation guide is not a translation; rather it is the standard pronunciation used by educated speakers in Bangkok, which often differs from the traditional spelling in tone and vowel length. Levels of usage―vulgar, common, colloquial, elegant, royal, and sacerdotal―are indicated whenever pertinent. Slang terms and idioms are included, and for words that American students find difficult there are grammatical comments and ample examples of usage.
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Mrs. Haas was born in Richmond, Indiana, United States, on January 23, 1910.
Mary Haas attended high school and Earlham College in Richmond. Mrs. Haas undertook graduate work on comparative philology at the University of Chicago. She studied under Edward Sapir, whom she would follow to Yale. She began a long career in linguistic fieldwork, studying various languages during the summer months.
Over the ten-year period from 1931 to 1941, Mrs. Haas studied the Wakashan language, Nitinat (Ditidaht), as well as a number of languages which were mainly originally spoken in the American southeast: Tunica, Natchez, Creek, Koasati, Choctaw, Alabama, and Hichiti. Her first published paper, A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text, written in collaboration with Morris Swadesh, was published in 1933.
She completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in linguistics at Yale University in 1935 at age 25, with a dissertation titled A Grammar of the Tunica Language.
After receiving her doctorate from Yale University in 1935, Mrs. Haas conducted her research in the southeastern United States with the lone surviving speaker of Tunica in Louisiana. As a result of her work, she wrote several books about that native language, including Tunica, Tunica Dictionary, and Tunica Texts.
During World War II, the United States government viewed the study and teaching of Southeast Asian languages as important to the war effort, and under the auspices of the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of California at Berkeley, Mary Haas developed a program to teach the Thai language. Her authoritative Thai-English Students' Dictionary, published in 1964, is still in use.
Mary Haas also spent time from 1940 to 1948 as a lecturer at Berkeley teaching the Burmese and Thai languages, holding a regular post beginning in 1948, becoming a full professor of linguistics at that institution in 1957. In 1953, Mrs. Haas began conducting the Survey of California Indian Languages which she continued to coordinate for most of her life.
She retired from Berkeley in 1977, and in 1984 she was elected a Berkeley Fellow. Mary Haas died at her home in Berkeley, California, on May 17, 1996, age 86.
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She married Morris Swadesh, a fellow linguist, in 1931. They divorced in 1937. She married for the second time Heng R. Subhanka, but they divorced in 1949.