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Language:English | Mayan (macrolanguage)
Date:1924 and undated
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Schuller, Rudolf
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Maps | Vocabularies
Extent:4 pages, 1 map
Description: The Maya materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Maya" section of the finding aid. The first is a brief word list (item M1a.1) recorded by Edward Sapir containing terms for numerals, natural objects, animals, parts of the body; obtained from the "Mortiniano tribe." (The specific Mayan language the list reflects is currently unidentified). The second item (AM1) is a linguistic map of Chiapas by Rudolf Schiller form 1924, which includes locations of the varieties Lacandon, Chol, Tzotzil, "Tsoke," "Tzendal" (Tzeltal?), and Chicomuceltec.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Date:undated
Contributor:Kendall, Daythal | Martin, Laura | Hofling, Andrew | Andrews, E. Wyllys (Edward Wyllys), 1916-1971
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies
Extent:4 folders
Description: Daythal Kendall annotated a copy of "Correspondencias Fonologicas Entre la Lenca y una Lengua Mayance" with Quechua and Takelma (Series 2). He also kept Essays from the American Anthropological Association (Series 7) and a one-page description of the Maya vigesimal numeral system.
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Date:1950s-1990s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Sedat, Guillermo | Yool G., Juan
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Guatemala--History
Type:Text | Cartographic
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Maya file consists mostly of copies of others' publications, in particular texts produced by the SIL and other publishers in Guatemala (Series 2). He also performed ethnopoetics analysis on Mayan texts in preparation for a taught course in 1985, and drew a map of the languages of Central America.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Language:Taino | English | Berber | Mayan (macrolanguage)
Date:1825
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:Documents
Description: Comparative list of 40 words (following Spanish orthography), by means of which the author asserts a relationship with the Berber and other African languages, as well as with the Maya and other Central American languages. His sources are Columbus, D'Anghiera, Herrera, Edwards.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Date:1960s-2000s, bulk 1994-2000s
Contributor:Pearson, Bruce L., 1932- | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Smith, Richard Zane | Andrews, Sallie Cotter | Chafe, Wallace L. | Bearskin, Leaford | Taukchiray, Wes, 1948-
Subject:Oklahoma--History | Linguistics
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Songs | Notes | Photographs | Vocabularies
Extent:ca. 1 linear foot
Description: The bulk of the Wyandot materials in the Bruce L. Pearson Papers are in Series III. Wyandot, reflecting Pearson's work with the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. There is also notable correspondence in Series VI with Wes Taukchiray, and with John Bierhorst, and a folder of students' essays in Series VII. Pearson did not conduct fieldwork on Wendat, but conducted historical research and analysis. Of note are compiled vocabularies and language analysis, community publications, conference presentations, a speech by Leaford Bearskin, and some interpretations of the documentation of Marius Barbeau, including songs on CD sung by Richard Zane Smith. There is a small amount of comparative material with Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga and Maya in Series III.
Collection:Bruce L. Pearson Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.265)