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Hupa Online Dictionary and Texts
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Language Name
Hupa.
Alternate Language Names
Na:tinixwe Mixine:whe'.
Region
California, United States.
Who
Justin Spence (Website Development, Editing, and Maintenance).
Others Involved
Verdena Parker, Stella Jarnaghan, Ned Jackson, Billy Carpenter, Marjorie Jarnaghan (Speakers); Amy Campbell, Kayla Begay, Ramón Escamilla, Andrew Garrett, Lindsey Newbold, Anne Pycha (Editorial and Technical Assistance); Erika Barrier, SimHayKin Jack, Christine Kelly, Tyler Lee-Wynant, Zoey Liu, Cuauhtemoc Quintero Lule, Kaitlin Reed, Cutcha Risling Baldy, Lajos Szoboszlai, Xuying Yuki Yu (Research Assistants); National Science Foundation's Documenting Endangered Languages Program, the Hellman Foundation, the Robert L. Oswalt Graduate Student Support Endowment for Endangered Language Documentation, the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (Funding).
Others involved, such as speakers and transcribers, are cited by name within audio, text, and video information.
Publishing Information
There is no information on when this online dictionary was launched or updated. It is hosted by UC Davis.
How People are Cited
People are cited on the About page of the dictionary site and within audio, text, or video information.
How Information is Cited
Speakers are cited within audio, text, or video information of the files they contributed. Speakers who impacted this dictionary through earlier work with the Hupa language are cited on the About page. Previous publications are also cited on the About page.
Where is Information Coming from
Information in this dictionary mainly comes from the Hupa Language Dictionary (1996) compiled by Victor Golla and edited by Ray Baldy, Louise Badgely, Ruth Beck, Calvin Carpenter, William Carpenter, Victor Golla, James Jackson, Minnie McWilliams, Elsie Ricklefs, and Herman Sherman. Included texts come from Hupa Texts (1905) transcribed by Pliny Earle Goddard, Hupa Texts, with Notes and Lexicon transcribed by Edward Sapir in 1927 and later edited and published by Victor Golla and Sean O'Neill in 2001, and Hupa Stories, Anecdotes, and Conversations recorded by Victor Golla in 1963 and later published by the Hoopa Valley Tribe in 1984. Additional original dictionary and text content was provided by Verdena Parker.
Tools and Framework used
This is an online multimedia dictionary, which includes audio and video.
Access
This dictionary is open access.
Included Languages and Directionality
Hupa to English.
Dialects Included
No dialect is specified for this dictionary.
Type of Dictionary
This is a bilingual, mono-directional, topical, digital dictionary.
How are Entries Organised
The Home page of the dictionary offers users the option to search in Hupa or English. Users can search between different databases, including the dictionary, a collection of texts, or lists of stems or prefixes. Under more options, there are different ways users can search, including allowing partial matches, finding only exact matches, having flexibility to account for spelling differences, finding related English words to English searches, or using the entry's ID number.
Users can access the full dictionary from the dropdown menu from Browse by selecting Topics. Entries are organized topically. Topics include animals, baskets, birds, boats, body, and many others. Once a user chooses a topic to browse, entries are listed alphabetically by Hupa, and include the Hupa headword and the English translation. Users can select show entry below each entry to access more information such as the part of speech, variant forms, and the dictionary entry ID number. Entries include links to audio, video, and text examples (if they exist for that headword) or to related topics or dictionary entries. If a user chooses Audio, Video, and Text Examples, they are taken to a list of examples where they have the option to listen to audio clips, watch videos, or see text examples which include the entry headword. Users can click go to full story beside the source info of text examples to access the full text. Text examples contain the full sentence using the entry headword written first in Hupa, followed by an English gloss, an audio recording (if there is one available), and the English translation. Each Hupa word in the text example sentence is hyperlinked so that users can click on the words individually to access that word's entry.
The dropdown menu from Browse offers several other options. These include Texts, Stems, Prefixes, Audio, and Video. Texts takes users to a list of texts that include the title, storyteller, date, location, and transcriber. Users can access the full story by clicking on the hyperlinked title. Full stories are organized line-by-line. Each line includes the Hupa text (each word hyperlinked so that users can access individual entries), the English gloss, an audio or video recording (if available) of the storyteller, and the English translation. The only titles that aren't hyperlinked are those transcribed by Edward Sapir. These stories can be accessed through the hyperlinked source information, which takes users to archive.org (the host site for The Collected Works of Edward Sapir [2001]). Stems takes users to a list of Hupa verb stems, which offers a brief description of how verb stems work. Entries are listed alphabetically by Hupa. Like the main dictionary entries, each entry includes the Hupa stem, the English translation, and the clickable option show entry, which then offers different tenses and forms, the stem list entry ID number, and a link to related dictionary entries (this link takes users to a list of full-word entries using the entry's stem). Prefixes takes users to a list of Hupa prefixes, which is structured the same as Stems, except entries are organized by groups based on the prefix's function. Prefix entries contain all the same info as stem entries. Audio takes users to a list of audio files, which are organized alphabetically by Hupa. Each audio entry includes the Hupa headword (hyperlinked so that users can access the main entry for the word), the English translation, the speaker, and the audio file. Video takes users to a list of videos, which are not organized in any specific way. Each video entry includes the English meaning, the speaker, and the video.
There is also a list of other online Hupa resources under the Resources page. These are hyperlinked and take users to other websites.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
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| Guide to use and understand | ❌ | |
| Audio | ✅ | Most entries have audio (accessed by clicking the link to Audio, Video, and Text Examples within the entry) |
| Images | ❌ | However, some entries have associated videos (accessed by clicking the link to Audio, Video, and Text Examples within the entry) |
| Example phrases | ✅ | Via the available texts (accessed by clicking the link to Audio, Video, and Text Examples within the entry) |
| Speakers marked | ✅ | In the Audio, Video, and Text Examples |
| Dialects marked | ❌ | There is only one dialect included |
External Links
Direct access to the dictionary through UC Davis can be found here: http://nalc.ucdavis.edu/hupa/hupa-lexicon.html
A description of the dictionary on UC Davis' Directory of Cultural Resource Libraries can be found here: https://crld.ucdavis.edu/hupa-online-dictionary-and-texts