How can we preserve our culture without its heart and soul, our Cajun language?

This book and the many thousands of hours I have put into it is dedicated to all the Cajun people who have the wisdom to appreciate the priceless heritage of their unique language and culture. May they find the vision and courage to preserve and develope both as mandated by Louisiana Law and as a right guaranteed by the Constitution of Louisiana.

Reverend Jules O. Daigle (1900-1998), an ordained Catholic priest since 1925, reared in Lafayette, Louisiana, spent thousands of hours compiling these two books, A DICTIONARY OF THE CAJUN LANGUAGE and CAJUN SELF-TAUGHT, true examples of his deep love and dedication to the Cajun culture and it's people. Rev. Daigle's Cajun Dictionary is recognized as a great accomplishment. His work was likened to that of Samuel Johnson compiling the first English dictionary in 1755. Rev. Daigle was the first to compose a seemingly complete dictionary of the Cajun language. Later, being the only priest old enough to have experienced the old, unaffected Cajun language, Rev. Daigle reverted to his life-long immersion in the Cajun language to compose CAJUN SELF-TAUGHT, a self-instructional guide for learning to speak the language which was so dear to him.

• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0961424541
• 518 pages / black and white
• Hardcover
• 9.25X12in
• Year released: 1996
• Publisher: Swallow Publications