Notes on Chasta Costa phonology and morphology

• Main Author: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
• Language: English; North American Indian
• Published: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum 1914
• Subjects: Chastacosta language; Chastacosta language > Phonology; Chastacosta language > Morphology; Athapascan languages; Indians of North America > California > Languages; Pacific; Rogue River; Athabascan
• Online Access: http://cdm16085.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16085coll13,17528

PM761 .S3 1914 72 Series: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum. Anthropological publications Vol. 2, no. 2.; Includes English and Chastacosta language material. "In a large part of southwestern Oregon and contiguous territory in northwestern California were spoken a number of apparently quite distinct Athabascan dialects. The territory covered by tribes or groups of villages speaking these dialects embraced not only a considerable strip of Pacific coast but also much of the interior to the east (Upper Umpqua and Upper Coquille rivers, lower Rogue river, Chetco creek and Smith river); some of the tribes (such as Tolowa and Chetco) were strictly coast people, others (such as Galice Creek and Umpqua or Akwa) were confined to the interior. While some of the Athabascan dialects spoken south of the Klamath in California, particularly Hupa and Kato, have been made well known to students of American linguistics, practically nothing of linguistic interest has as yet been published on any of the dialects of the Oregon-California branch of Pacific Athabascan. It is hoped that the following imperfect and fragmentary notes on one of these dialects may prove of at least some value in a preliminary way"--P. 273 [9].