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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golla, Victor (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Native American Languages.
Langage et langues.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Nord.
Langues indiennes d'Amerique > Californie.
Language
Indians, North American
Language and languages.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > California > Languages.
California.
California
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages--from the earliest vocabula.
Physical Description:1 online resource (400 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780520949522

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