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California Indian Languages
Victor Golla
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Description for California Indian Languages
Hardback. Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where a variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This illustrated handbook reviews what we know about California's indigenous languages. Num Pages: 400 pages, 84 photos, 39 maps, 80 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2JN; CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 223 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1342.
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages - from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred ... Read more
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages - from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520266674
SKU
V9780520266674
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About Victor Golla
Victor Golla, a leading expert on the native languages of California, is Professor of Anthropology at Humboldt State University. He is the editor of The Sapir-Kroeber Correspondnce: Letters Between Edward Sapir and Alfred Kroeber, 1905--1925 and of several volumes of The Collected Works of Edward Sapir.
Reviews for California Indian Languages
"A once-in-a-hundred year work... Readable and enjoyable... A landmark in the study of native Californian languages."
Kathryn A. Klar California Archaeology
Kathryn A. Klar California Archaeology