Documentation:RelLex/Yurok Language Project
Yurok Language Project
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Language Name
Yurok.
Alternate Language Names
Pueleekla’, Chillula, Mita, Pekwan, Rikwa, Sugon, Weitspek, Weitsoekan.
Region
California, United States.
Who
Yurok Language Project, Department of Linguistics, University of California; Andrew Garrett (Project director).
Others Involved
Juliette Blevins (Helped to established the Yurok Language Project); Lisa Conathan; Anna Jurgensen; Herman Leung; Adrienne Mamin; Rachel Maxson; Yoram Meroz; Mary Paster; Alysoun Quinby; William Richard; Ruth Rouvier; Kevin Ryan; and Tess Wood (Students); Aileen Figueroa; Ollie Foseide; Jimmie James; Glenn Moore Sr.; Archie Thompson; Georgiana Trull; and Jessie Van Pelt (Speakers); National Science Foundation (Financial support).
Publishing Information
This is a digital dictionary that doesn't explicitly display any information on launch or update dates. In the website footer the Yurok Language Project Digital Archive is dated 2001-2017.
How People are Cited
The project heads, speakers, students, and financial support are all cited by name on the Acknowledgements page, which can be found under Our project in the website’s menu. Speakers are cited by name in entries when example sentences or audio is included.
How Information is Cited
The source of recordings and photographs are cited on the Acknowledgements page.
Each entry in the dictionary includes a lexicon record number and a source reference. Although this information is thoroughly documented, there is no guide available to understand the lexicon record number and the source reference. Due to this, this information it is not informative to most users.
Where is Information Coming from
Information in this dictionary comes from previously published resources, songs, texts, and directly from speakers.
Tools and Framework used
This dictionary is a multimedia website that includes audio.
Access
This dictionary is open access.
Included Languages and Directionality
Yurok to English, English to Yurok. The dictionary can be searched in either direction.
Dialects Included
No dialect is specified for this dictionary.
Type of Dictionary
This is a bilingual, bidirectional online dictionary.
How are Entries Organised
The entries in this dictionary cannot be browsed and must be accessed through the website’s search function. The search function of this dictionary allows users to search by English or Yurok (including both partial and complete words), semantic domain, part of speech, source, and paradigmatic categories.
The entries include grammatical abbreviations, and English translation, source information, and sometimes an audio file.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
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| Guide to use and understand | ✅ | Includes a key for searches and well as a pronunciation and grammar guide |
| Audio | ✅ | In some entries |
| Images | ❌ | Included on the website, but not in specific entries |
| Example phrases | ✅ | In some entries |
| Speakers marked | ✅ | With audio and example sentences, and in the non-transparent source information |
| Dialects marked | ❌ |
Other Notes
Some sections of the website are password protected and are accessible only to project researchers. This includes all of the field notes and recordings on the Documentation page, which can be found under Our project in the website’s menu.
External Links
The website can be found at: https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~yurok/index.php