1897-1059 Preliminary report to the edition of Edward Sapir’s Comparative dictionary of Indo-Chinese and Na-Dene Knüppel Michael author Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, Shandong, People's Republic of China Correspondence to: Michael Knüppel michaelknueppel@gmx.net 30 06 2020 Volume 137, Issue 2 2020 157 160 Copyright © 2020 2020 <p>In the report the author explains his aspired project of the edition of Edward Sapir’s <em>Com­parative dictionary of Indo-Chinese and Na-Dene</em>, kept as a manuscript in the Franz Boas estate in the library of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. The manu­script forms one volume of Sapir’s <em>Com­parative </em><em>dictionary of Na-Dene languages</em>.</p> 1 Bengtson J.D. 1994. Edward Sapir and the “Sino-Dene” hypothesis. – Anthropological Sci­ence 102.3: 207–230. 2 Karlgren B. 1923. Analytic dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese. Paris. 3 Kaye A.S. 1992. Distant genetic relationship and Edward Sapir. – Semiotica 91.3–4: 273–300. 4 Knüppel M. 2012. Zu Edward Sapirs “Comparative dictionary of Indo-Chinese and Na-Dene”. – Journal of Oriental and African Studies 21: 41–57. 5 Knüppel M. 2017. Jenissejisch-sino-tibetische Anmerkungen bei Robert P. Austerlitz. – Németh M., Podolak B., Urban M. (eds.). Essays in the history of languages and linguis­tics. Dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Kraków: 351–355. 6 Przyluski J. 1924. Langues sino-tibétaines. – Meillet A., Cohen M. (eds.). Les langues du monde. Par un groupe de linguistes sous la direction. Paris: 361–384. 7 Sapir E. 1915. The Na-Dene languages. A preliminary report. – AmA 17: 534–558. 8 Shafer R. 1952. Athapaskan and Sino-Tibetan. – IJAL 18.1: 12–19.