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Dene Thá includes: Slave, Slavey
Language:French | Slavey, South
Date:1930
Contributor:Gouy, Père Edouard
Subject:Linguistics | Dene languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Translations
Extent:192 pages
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. This particular item is a French-Slavey dictionary attributed to Father Edouard Gouy. This dictionary was mimeographed in 15 copies in 1931. From original in possession of Angus Sherwood, Norman Wells, North West Territories, Canada.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Date:1956, 1976
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Simmons, Hoxie
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Dene languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Transcriptions | Translations | Vocabularies
Extent:18 pages
Description: Galice word and phrase list from a recording made with Galice speaker Hoxie Simmons at Siletz Reservation in 1956. (Original recording housed at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.) Handwritten on looseleaf, listing lexical items in phonemic transcription, with English glosses, e.g., dalbai. Lexicon includes nouns, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, as well as inflected forms of nouns ('my wife, your wife, his wife') and phrases (e.g., 'I shall see it', 'what are you doing?'). According to Kendall, nouns and verbs with person markers, but no complete paradigms. In "Series I: Correspondence," also see letter from Dorothy Hoijer to Whitfield Bell for brief info on the recording.
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)