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Kwatsáan liváa: A Multi-Generational Dictionary of the Quechan Language
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Language Name
Quechan.
Alternate Language Names
Yuma, Kwtsaan, Kwatsáan Iiyáa.
Region
California and Arizona, United States.
Who
Amy Miller, A.M. Halpern (Linguists).
Others Involved
George Bryant, Rudy Allen, Myra Andrews, Preston J. Arrow-weed, Muriel Bryant, Juliana Comet, Victor Curran, Marilyn Dewey, Ila Dunzweiler, Arlie Emerson, Perdius Escalante, Tessy Escalante, Della Escalanti, Frank Escalanti, Pearl H. Escalanti, Donna Herrera, Phylis Jones, Bertha Levy José, Shirley Kelly, Barbara Levy, Charlotte Manuel, Raelene Miguel, Arnold Millard, Faith Millard, Dorothea Montague, Nancy Montague Sr., John Norton, Judith Osborne, Lucinda Polk, Linda Rivera, Millie Romero, Daisy Simms, Vernon Smith, Ernest Cachora, Ignatius Cachora, Lorey Cachora Sr., Pete Cachora, Amelia Caster, Rosita Carr, Henry Collins, John Comet, Lee Emerson, Jessie Webb Escalante, Mary Kelly Escalanti, Peter D. Escalanti Sr., Josefa Hartt, Mina Hills, Stewart Homer, Teddy José, Lavina Kelly, Tom Kelly, Lawrence Levy Sr., Eunice Miguel, Pat Miguel, Ethel Ortiz, Anona Quahlupe, Isabel Rose, Maggie Townsend, Luke Homer, Bernard Jackson, Patrick Miguel Sr., Chappo Bryant, Michael Bryant, Victor Curran Sr., Minnie Norton, John Smith, Unnamed contributors (Contributors).
This is not a complete list of those involved. According to the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe's website, they were still in the process of editing and verifying the names in the acknowledgements in February 2024. As of mid 2024, there has not been an updated list of those involved.
Publishing Information
As of mid 2024, this dictionary is not yet published.
The first draft of this dictionary was completed in December 2021. A second draft was completed in March 2022. As of February 2024, they were still editing and verifying names in the acknowledgements.
How People are Cited
We are unable to access this dictionary to determine how people, such as speakers and contributors, are cited. Those listed under 'Others Involved' are listed on a screenshot of what seems to be the dictionary's working title page on the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe's website on the Quechan Language Preservation page.
How Information is Cited
We are unable to access this dictionary to determine how or where source materials are cited. Contributors listed under 'Others Involved' are cited by name on a screenshot of what appears to be the dictionary's working title page on the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe's website on the Quechan Language Preservation page.
Where is Information Coming from
We are unable to access this dictionary to determine where the information is coming from or what sources were used. However, according to the Fort Yuma Indian Tribe's website and the Kwatsáan Iiyáa Mattkuu'éeyk! Learn the Quechan Language! dictionary, information in this dictionary primarily comes from speakers who participated in language work done by linguist A.M. Halpern from 1975 to 1983, by linguist Amy Miller from 2013 to 2014, by speaker George Bryant over a span of seventeen years, and ongoing work being done by the Quechan Language Program. Those listed under 'Others Involved' are speakers from the twenty-first century, the 1970s, and the 1930s.
Tools and Framework used
We are unable to determine what format this dictionary will be available in.
Previous publications from the Quechan Language Program are digital books, so this dictionary may be availalable in a similar format.
Access
As of 2024 this dictionary is not yet published, and we are unable to determine how it will be accessible.
Information regarding the dictionary's publication progress is available on the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe's website on the Quechan Language Preservation page.
Previous publications from the Quechan Language Program are available open access on the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe's website, so this dictionary's access may be similar.
Included Languages and Directionality
It seems this dictionary will include Quechan and English. However, we are unable to access this dictionary to determine the directionality.
Dialects Included
We are unable to access this dictionary to determine which dialects are included.
Type of Dictionary
We are unable to access this resource to determine what type of dictionary it is. According to Kwatsáan Iiyáa Mattkuu'éeyk! Learn the Quechan Language!, this dictionary will be comprehensive.
How are Entries Organised
We are unable to access this dictionary to determine how entries are organised.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
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| Guide to use and understand | Unknown | |
| Audio | Unknown | |
| Images | Unknown | |
| Example phrases | Unknown | |
| Speakers marked | Unknown | |
| Dialects marked | Unknown |
Other Notes
As of mid 2024, this dictionary is not yet published. However, based on the description in the Kwatsáan Iiyáa Mattkuu'éeyk! Learn the Quechan Language!, the Kwatsáan liváa: A Multi-Generational Dictionary of the Quechan Language is going to be "a comprehensive dictionary of the Quechan language...[that] will represent four generations of Quechan speakers and will include words and sentences from the 1930s, from the 1970s, and from [George] Bryant's 17 years of language preservation work, as well as words and sentences that today's Quechan elders have contributed during dictionary workshops from 2013 to present. With luck, the [Kwatsáan liváa: A Multi-Generational Dictionary of the Quechan Language] will be published in the next few years...Kwatsáan Iiyáa Mattkuu'éeyk! Learn the Quechan Language! represents a subset of the [Kwatsáan liváa: A Multi-Generational Dictionary of the Quechan Language]..." (p. 7).
External Links
Screenshots of the dictionary's working title page and acknowledgements editing communication are publicly viewable on the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe's website on the Quechan Language Preservation page: https://www.quechantribe.com/departments-quechan-language-preservation.html
A brief description of the dictionary is offered in the Introduction of the Kwatsáan Iiyáa Mattkuu'éeyk! Learn the Quechan Language! dictionary on p. 7. This is a direct link to the open access Kwatsáan Iiyáa Mattkuu'éeyk! Learn the Quechan Language! dictionary on the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe's website: https://www.quechantribe.com/documents/documents/TheIntermediate-BeginnersQuechanDictionary.pdf