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A Mitsqanaqan̓ Ventureño — English, English — Mitsqanaqan̓ Ventureño Dictionary
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Language Name
Ventureño.
Alternate Language Names
Central Chumash, Mitskanaxan.
Region
California, United States.
Who
Timothy Henry-Rodriguez.
Others Involved
Eleanor Arellanes Fishburn, Brenda “Cookie” Guzman, Isabel Layton, Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, Matthew Vestuto (Cultural Consultants); Kenneth Whistler (Technical Assistance); Kirstina Kroger, Daniela De la Parra, Risa Erskine, Avelino Corral Esteban, Sorina Dragusanu, Klara Kim, Ajuawak Kapashesit, Julia Quinn, Bhara Taşören, Kaveh Vee, Victoria Winsryg, Sophie Villerius, Karen Wiecha (Research Team I); Abigail Hansell, Kevin Orbach, Edita Ghushchyan, Marti McClure (Research Team II); Fernando Librado (Kitsepawit, Candelaria Valenzuela, Cecilio (Tumamait), Juan de Jesús Justo, Simplicio Pico (Pamashikimait), José Peregrino Romero (Winay), Alejandro López, José Juan Olivas, the del Campos (Speakers); Veronica Muñoz Ledo-Yañez, David Green, and David Rodriguez-Henry (Spanish translation assistants); Marianne Mithun and Wallace Chafe (design); Suzanne Wash (language consultant); Martha Macri (Harrington notes); National Science Foundation (support); National Endowment for the Humanities (funding).
Publishing Information
This work was published in 2019, and is part of the University of Hawaii”s Kaipuleohone digital ethnographic archive.
How People are Cited
Cultural consultants, research assistants, and speakers are cited Post-Title.
How Information is Cited
Previous work is cited in the Bibliography. Consultants are cited in the Preface, and speakers are cited in About the Speakers.
Where is Information Coming from
Entries and cultural information in this dictionary come from speakers and previous works, particularly work from the John Peabody Harrington Archives. Harrington was a linguist and anthropologist who conducted extensive fieldwork with the Indigenous peoples of California from 1907 to 1957.
Tools and Framework used
This dictionary is available as a PDF file.
Access
This dictionary is available open access online.
Included Languages and Directionality
Mitsqanaqan̓ Ventureño to English, English to Mitsqanaqan̓ Ventureño.
Dialects Included
This is primarily a dictionary of the Mitsqanaqan̓ dialect. Occasional forms are included from Matilija, Ojai, Xom̓ (Castaic), Humaliwo, Muwu, and sʼoməs dialects.
Type of Dictionary
This is a multilingual, bidirectional dictionary.
How are Entries Organised
Entries in the Ventureño to English section are organised alphabetically by Ventureño headword. Each entry lists variant and reduplicated forms of the headword (if applicable), its part of speech, practical English translation, example sentences to show the word in use, etymology and cognates of the headword in relation to other Chumashan languages, and the source of the entry. Entries will often contain the headword's parsed form (separated by morpheme) and paradigms.
The English to Ventureño section is much shorter. It is organised alphabetically by English headword, like the above, and each entry contains the Ventureño equivalent in boldface. Man English words can be both nouns and verbs, while Ventureño distinguishes these categories. This section is intended to help the reader differentiate these types of forms.
Towards the back of the dictionary is a section entitled Semantic Lists. These are wordlists organised alphabetically by English followed by Ventureño equivalent and grouped by theme: Animals, Basketry, Body Parts, Borrowings, Geography, Food and Eating, Kinship (Family), Plants and Agriculture, Telling Time (Chronometry), Tools and Useful Items, and Weather (Meteorology).
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
|---|---|---|
| Guide to use and understand | ✅ | |
| Audio | ❌ | |
| Images | ❌ | |
| Example phrases | ✅ | |
| Speakers marked | ❌ | |
| Dialects marked | ✅ |
External Links
Reference on Scholar Space: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/collections/bf4ed241-69d9-477a-81a3-1605d499316f
A Mitsqanaqan̓Ventureño — English, English — Mitsqanaqan̓Ventureño Dictionary PDF: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f773aee2-a4dc-439d-b2d0-baeae669b413/content