Dene materials, Harry Hoijer Collection
Culture:
Tsuut'ina includes: Sarsi (pej.), Sarcee (pej.), Tsuu T'ina
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Dene includes: Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athabascan, Athapaskan
Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan
Language: English
Date: 1935; undated
Contributor: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976
Subject: Linguistics | Ethnography | Dene languages
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent: 3 items
Description: Items relating to the study of Dene languages, including a letter from Sapir to Hoijer regarding comparative Athapascan linguistics and two items composed of Hoijer's notes and writings on the subject. One is his 27-page "Comparative Athapascan Affixes," including charts of comparative data taken from 33 Athapascan languages and dialects (with English glosses). The other consists of about 300 handwritten slips on Comparative Athapascan with comparative lexical data described as Sarsi, Chipewyan, and Navajo, alphabetically arranged, according to the English gloss.
Collection: Harry Hoijer Collection Mss.497.3.H68