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Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Date:Undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Linguistics | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Notes | Translations
Extent:1 folder
Description: Found in Subcollection I, Series I, Section "VII. Northwest Coast." Consists of a one-page typescript with two lines of Hupa text, followed by explanation and analysis of each word or lexical unit. Author not identified, though it is likely not Speck, as he did not study Hupa or other Dene languages, nor did he specialize in linguistic analysis. Source is likely Edward Sapir or Pliny Earle Goddard.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Date:1915, 1935
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Linguistics | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence
Extent:10 pages
Description: The Wiyot materials in the ACLS collection consists of two items. In the "Algonkian" section, "Classification of Algonkin languages" (item A.1) provides a list of Algonquian languages and bands, showing which are dormant and which are extant and approximate number of speakers as of 1935. This item includes an attached note of Edward Sapir to Morris Swadesh on revision in classification of Wiyot and Yurok. In this same section there is also "Wiyot-Yurok and Algonkian comparisons" (item A.2), a list sent by Frank Speck to Edward Sapir to supplement information published by Sapir in 1913.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)