Author: Alice SchlichterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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Reports from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Author: Alice SchlichterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Author: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Author: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Author: California Indian Languages
Author: Victor GollaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520389670
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.
Survey of California and other indian languages. Report
Author: Flutes of Fire
Author: Leanne HintonPublisher: Heyday
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Before outsiders arrived, about 100 distinct Indian languages were spoken in California, many of them alive today. Each of these languages represents a unique way of understanding the world and expressing that understanding. Flutes of Fire examines many different aspects of Indian languages: languages, such as Yana, in which men and women have markedly different ways of speaking; ingenious ways used in each language for counting. Hinton discusses how language can retain evidence of ancient migrations, and addresses what different groups are doing to keep languages alive and pass them down to the younger generations.
Origin of the Earth and Moon
Author: Shirley SilverPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816521395
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference, June 8-9, 2002, University of California at Berkley
Author: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Structure and Contact in Languages of the Americas
Author: John Sylak-GlassmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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