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Northern Paiute-Bannock Dictionary

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Language Name

Northern Paiute.

Alternate Language Names

Numu, Paviotso.

Region

California, Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho; United States.

Who

Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S. Fowler, and Glenda Powell.

Others Involved

Arthur Manning, Clara Little, Helen Dave, Harley Jackson, Hugh Thomas, Jessie Little, Louise or Lillian Dave, Leah Manning, Lane Pretty (Duck Valley primary consultants); Alice Steve, Jimmy George, Wuzzie George (Fallon-Stillwater primary consultants); Alice Crow, Birdie Calico, Bill Edmo, Bessie Judson, Cheesaw Wheeler, Duty Lewis, Delia Pohipe, Frank Randall, George Auck, Grant Martin, Irene Edmo, Idaho Horsehead, Julia Ballard, Janette Pocatello, John Pokibro, Leon Calico, Lizzie Edmo, Leonard Edmo, Leighton Littlejohn, Martha Warjack, Ray Crow, Ralph Horn, Russel Pokibro, Stella Edmo, Tawachi, Tom Cosgrove, Wihii, Willie Edmo, Zelphia Towersap (Fort Hall primary consultants); Alice Crutcher, Allen Snapp, Birdie Smart, Dewey Barr, Daniel Snapp, Harold Abel, Harris Jack, Harley Jackson, Irene Jack, Oren George, Pete Snapp, Ruby Snapp, Stanley Jackson, Willie Harden (Fort McDermitt primary consultants); Abraham Mawee, Avery Winnemucca, Carl Tobey, Gertie Holbrook, Katie Frazier, Mabel Paulina~Mabel Wright, Paul Paulina, Warren Tobey, Flora Smith, Daisy Aster, Bessie Green (Pyramid Lake primary consultants); Bridget Henry, Edna Jones, Howard Rogers, Jennie Quintero, Julia Williams, Peter Jones, Rosie Quartz, Walter Voorhees (Walker River primary consultants); Harry Sampson (Dayton primary consultant); Ed Williams (Yerington primary consultant).

National Endowment for the Humanities, Robert and Joy Leland Charitable Trust, Sven and Astrid Liljeblad Fund (funding).

Publishing Information

This dictionary was copyrighted in 2011 and published in 2012 by the University of Utah Press.

How People are Cited

Speakers are cited by name in the Data Sources and Consultants section, as well as listed with their communities in Abbreviations. In entries, speakers are marked by initials. The speakers listed are primarily speakers who worked with Liljeblad.

How Information is Cited

Previous work that was used to compile this dictionary is cited under Data source and consultants. The source materials for each entry is cited with abbreviations (i.e. SLN for Sven Liljeblad Notes). A list of these abbreviations can be found under Source on page 4 of the dictionary. Speaker, dialect, and source information is heavily cited in this dictionary.

Where is Information Coming from

Entries primarily come from dictionary 40,000 file slips collected by Liljeblad over 50 years. The file slips included the Northern Paiute entry, usually with an example sentence, and a rough English translation, and the initials of the consultant. This current dictionary notes that these files rarely included direct translations, and all direct translations include in the dictionary have been added for this publication.

Entires from other sources such as the field notes of Catherine Fowler (marked [CF] in entries), and work from Harold Abel (marked [HA] in entries) were incorporated.

Tools and Framework used

This dictionary is available as a physical book and digital book. An extensive but incomplete preview is open access on Google Books.

Access

Both the physical book and digital book are accessible through libraries. Both the physical book and digital book can be purchased from the University of Utah Press for $105 USD (ebook) and $100 USD (hardcover).

Included Languages and Directionality

Northern Paiute to English, English to Northern Paiute.

Dialects Included

This dictionary includes entries from four dialects of Northern Paiute, which can be further divided into individual community dialects. These dialects, along with their abbreviations used in entries are as follows: 1) Burns (B), Klamath (K), Warm Springs (WS), Fort Hall [Bannock] (FH); 2) Duck Valley (DK), Fort McDermitt (MD), Summit Lake (SL), Fort Bidwell (FB); 3) Pyramid Lake (PL), Reno-Sparks (RS), Lovelock (L), Susanville-Alturas (SA); 4) Fallon-Stillwater (F), Walker River (WR); Yerington (Y), Bridgeport (BP), Dayon (D). The author note that the biggest dialect division is between 4 and 1, 2, and 3.

Most of the entries in this dictionary come from Liljeblad's slip files, which were primarily, but not entirely, based on work with Bannock speakers at Fort Hall.

Type of Dictionary

This is a bilingual, bidirectional dictionary.

How are Entries Organised

Entries in the Dictionary section are organised alphabetically by Northern Paiute headword, followed by a phonetic transcription of the entry. Each entry then notes the speaker from whom the word originated along with their community, the entry's part of speech, the entry's English definition, example sentences in some entries, a free translation of the example sentence into English, and the entry's semantic field/category (using abbreviations found in the Abbreviations section). The source for the main entry (e.g. Liljeblad's notes) as well as the dialect variant is marked using abbreviations.

the speaker who provided the entry, its part of speech, English definition, example sentences, semantic field, and the citation. Dialects are marked at the end of each entry. This section is followed by two small finder lists: an English―Northern Paiute-Bannock Finder List, organised alphabetically by English; and a Northern Paiute-Bannock―English Finder List, organised alphabetically by Northern Paiute.

Other Features

Feature	Included	More Information
Guide to use and understand	✅	In the Guide to Entries section of the Introduction
Audio	❌
Images	❌
Example phrases	✅	For some entries
Speakers marked	✅	Using abbreviations in every entry
Dialects marked	✅	Using abbreviations in every entry

External Links

Reference on WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/title/795127261

A preview of this dictionary is available on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=U7Nfd8J7FmwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The dictionary can be purchased from the University of Utah Press: https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/northern-paiute-bannock-dictionary/