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Date:1917-1925, 1931
Subject:Caddoan languages | Coahuiltecan languages | Hokan languages | Language families | Linguistics | Muskogean languages | Siouan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 page, circa 1,300 cards and slips
Description: The Hokan materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of two items in the "Hokan" section of the finding aid. The main item is Sapir's "Hokan-Siouan comparisons" lexical file (item H.3). This consists of comparisons among various families of the proposed Hokan-Siouan phylum. Dividers separate sections as follows: Hokan-Siouan (Yuki; Muskogean: Caddoan; Siouan; Hokan-type Coahuiltecan-Butiaba); Washo-Hokan; Hokan-Coahuiltecan; Yana-Hokan. It is subdivided by stems, grammatical categories, and occasionally by meaning. There is an additional brief document by Kroeber, item H.4 "Hokan compared with various Middle and South American languages", with wordlists of 21 English items with equivalents in Yuman, Hokan, Subtiaba, Xinca, Lenca, Chibcha, Guayom, Chibchan, Zoque, and Mixe, taken from published and unpublished sources. In the "Achumawi" section of the finding aid, there are two items by Jaime de Angulo examining the relationship of Achumawi to the proposed Hokan language family (items H.1 and H.2).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English
Date:1930-1938
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Language families | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling | Psychology
Type:Text
Extent:360 pages
Description: The materials in the ACLS collection relating generally to the study of the linguistics, and not to specific languages, are located in the "Linguistics, General" section of the finding aid and consist of several essays and reports relating to issues such as transcriptions methodologies, psychology of language, language classification, and assessments of the state of the study of Indigenous American languages in the 1930s.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Date:Undated
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Dene languages | Language families | Linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries
Extent:4 volumes (approximately 500 pages each)
Description: The Na-Dene materials in the ACLS collection consist of a 4 volume Comparative Na-Dene dictionary (item Na20a.3) by Edward Sapir, found in the "Athapaskan" section of the finding aid. Volumes 1, 3, and 4 are comparative Na-Dene with provision for various Athabaskan languages and dialects, Haida, and Tlingit. Volume 2 is comparative Sino-Tibetan-Na-Dene with provision for entries in Sino-Tibetan languages, Dene, Haida, and Tlingit. Most pages in all volumes have only a few entries. Other Tlingit, Haida, and Dene materials in the ACLS Collection (Mss.497.3.B63c) are listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Tututni includes: Rogue River
Takelma includes: Rogue River
Chasta Costa includes: Shasta Costa, Chastacosta, Rogue River
Language:Chinook Jargon | English | Shasta | Takelma | Tututni
Date:1903-1904; 1906
Contributor:Johnson, Frances | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | St. Clair, H. H. (Harry Hull)
Subject:Language families | Linguistics | Medicine | Music | Oregon--History | Penutian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Musical scores | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:5 notebooks (approximately 120 pages each), 6 pages (sheet music), 36 loose pages
Description: The Takelma material in the ACLS consist primarily of materials found in the "Takelma" section of the finding aid, item Pn1.1. The bulk of this material is that recorded by Edward Sapir in 1903-1904, consisting of 5 field notebooks with texts with English translations and medicine formulas (published in 1909) as well as paradigms and other grammatical notes. This material also contains sheet music with transcriptions of four Takelma songs and one each for Chasta Costa, Shasta, and Chinook Jargon. Remaining leaves are vocabulary notes made by H. H. St. Clair. In the "Penutian" section, there are also two sets of "Coos-Takelma-Penutian comparisons" (item P1.2 and P1.3).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Ohkay Owingeh includes: San Juan Pueblo
Cochiti includes: Kotyit, Keres
Date:1915, 1957
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Language families | Linguistics | Music | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Charts | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:28 pages
Description: The Tewa materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Tewa" section of the finding aid. One is a brief Tewa word list from 1915 (item T1a.1), recorded by Edward Sapir. The other is Kurath's "Cochiti and San Juan Pueblo songs" (item Ke1.10), which consists of words, music, paraphrase of text, lists of ceremonial terms, and includes a list of contents of audio collection "Tewa Recordings, Ohkay Owingeh" (Mss.Rec.25), listed separately in this guide. Also includes a phonologic chart for Cochiti Keresan and Tewa-Tanoan. Some of this material may be culturally sensitive and reproduction restricted.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)