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The Karok Language

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Language Name

Karuk.

Alternate Language Names

Karok, Araráhih.

Region

California, United States.

Who

William Bright (Author/Compiler).

Others Involved

Lottie Beck, Maggie Charley, Emily Donahue, Daisy Jones, Mamie Offiled, Chester Pepper, Nettie Reuben, Julia Starritt (Informants); C.D. Chrétien, M.S. Beeler, M.B. Emeneau, M.R. Haas (Editors of the Volume).

Publishing Information

Published 1957, University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 13, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.

Includes a grammar, texts, and a lexicon.

How People are Cited

Speakers are cited as informants in the Introduction to the volume. They are listed with their full names and the place they are from.

Other individuals who supported the project are acknowledged in the last paragraph of the Introduction to the volume.

How Information is Cited

Previous published resources are cited in the Bibliography.

Entries in the lexicon which come from specific texts in the volume include reference to the text.

Where is Information Coming from

Information comes from speakers through fieldwork done by William Bright in 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1954.

Previously published Karuk language materials and other previously published sources can be found listed in the Bibliography.

Tools and Framework used

This resource–which includes a lexicon–is available as a physical and digital book (PDF scan).

The lexicon begins on page 311 of the volume, following the Grammar and Texts sections.

Access

The physical book is accesible through libraries. The open access PDF can be accessed through the UC Berkeley Linguistics department website for Karuk.

Included Languages and Directionality

Karuk to English, followed by an English to Karuk section (intended as an index).

Dialects Included

No dialect is specified for this resource, but the informants for this volume are from Orleans, Tea Bar, Ike's Falls (below Somes Bar), Somes Bar, and Los Angeles.

Type of Dictionary

This resource includes grammar, text and a lexicon. The lexicon is a bilingual, bidirectional wordlist.

How are Entries Organised

An explanation of the Karuk alphabetical ordering in the Karok to English section is provided on page 311 of the volume in the Introduction to the Lexicon: "Entries are arranged according to an order based on that of the English alphabet: are arranged according to an order based on that of the English alphabet: a č e f h i k m n o p r s t θ u v x y #. Accent marks, length marks, glottal stop, and the distinction between s and š are ignored in alphabetizing, as is the use of the tilde and of capitalization to write certain morpho phonemes."

All entries are numbered, and some entries also have numbered related sub-entries. Entries consist of the Karuk headword, part of speech, and an English translation. Some entries also include reference numbers to the included texts.

The English to Karok index is organized alphabetically by English and consists of an English headword, and a reference to the corresponding Karuk entry and entry number.

Other Features

Feature	Included	More Information
Guide to use and understand	✅	Yes, in the Introduction to the Lexicon
Audio	❌
Images	❌
Example phrases	❌	The entries which are marked as coming directly from texts included in the volume can be found in use in the Texts
Speakers marked	❌	Speakers are not marked in the Lexicon, but are marked in each of the Texts
Dialects marked	❌

External Links

Reference on WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/5006303

Find the Open Access PDF on UC Berkeley Linguistics: https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~karuk/Bright-1957