Annotated Swadesh wordlists for the Yana group (Hokan family).

Languages included: Northern Yana [yan-nya], Central Yana [yan-cya], Yahi [yan-yah].

DATA SOURCES

Main source

Sapir & Swadesh 1960 = Sapir, Edward and Morris Swadesh. Yana Dictionary. Ed. by Mary R. Haas. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 22. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. // A dictionary compiled by Morris Swadesh on the basis of Edward Sapir’s lexical files. Includes data from Northern Yana, Central Yana and Yahi, collected by Sapir in the course of his fieldwork in the first two decades of the XXth century.

Additional sources

Sapir 1910 = Sapir, Edward. Yana Texts. Together with Yana Myths collected by Roland B. Dixon. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 1-235. Berkeley: University of California Press. // A collection of texts in Central and Northern Yana with interlinear glosses and translations.
Sapir 1917 = Sapir, Edward. The Position of Yana in the Hokan Stock. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 13. No. 1. P. 1-34. Berkeley: University of California Press. // A comparison of Yana with other Hokan languages.
Sapir 1922 = Sapir, Edward. The Fundamental Elements of Northern Yana. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 13. No. 6. P. 215-234. Berkeley: University of California Press. // A short sketch of Northern Yana, consisting of four lists: 1) “Northern Yana verb stems”, 2) “Northern Yana non-grammatical verb suffixes”, 3) “Northern Yana formal elements”, 4) “Northern Yana noun suffixes”.
Sapir 1923 = Sapir, Edward. Text Analyses of Three Yana Dialects. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 20. P. 263-294. Berkeley: University of California Press. // A detailed grammatical analysis of text fragments in Central Yana, Northern Yana, and Yahi. Contains the only Yahi text ever published.

NOTES

Transliteration.

Data from [Sapir & Swadesh 1960] were transliterated into the UTS as follows:

p	pʰ
t	tʰ
c	cʰ
k	kʰ
p᾽	pʼ
t᾽	tʼ
c᾽	cʼ
k᾽	kʼ
b	p
d	t
ʒ	c
g	k
VV	Vː

Database compiled by: M. Zhivlov (January 2013).