Annotated Swadesh wordlists for the Eyak group (Na-Dene family).
Languages included: Eyak [eya-eya].
Data sources.
General:
Krauss 1965 = M. E. Krauss. Eyak: a preliminary report. In: Canadian Journal of Linguistics 10 (1965). P. 167-187. // A brief grammar sketch.
Krauss 1968 = M. E. Krauss. Noun-Classification Systems in Athapaskan, Eyak, Tlingit and Haida Verbs. In: International Journal of American Linguistics 34/3 (1968). P. 194-203.
Krauss 1970 = M. E. Krauss. Eyak dictionary. University of Alaska & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963-1970. // The electronic copy (scanned pdf-files) available at the Alaska Native Language Archive (2011), item EY961K1970b (http://www.uaf.edu/anla/collections/eyak/list/) has been used. Some pages contain Krauss' handwritten marginalia. The main file (Eyak-English) consists of ca. 3000 pages, but w/o pagination. We refer to electronic page numbers from 1 to 2948 of the ANLA pdf-file. A second copy available to us is that published at MIT Microphoto Laboratory, reduced to circa 4 or 5 pages of original to 1 page. Pages of this copy are numbered from 1 to 666, but the print quality is too poor to make it possible to use this copy as a primary source.
Krauss 1970a = M. E. Krauss. Eyak dictionary. // The second pdf-file, available at the Alaska Native Language Archive (2011), item EY961K1970b (http://www.uaf.edu/anla/collections/eyak/list/). It consists of 116 pages and includes English-, German- and Russian-Eyak indexes for Krauss 1970. Scanned pages, numbered from 667 to 782.
Krauss 1982 = In Honor of Eyak: The Art of Anna Nelson Harry. Compiled and edited with introduction and commentary by M. E. Krauss. Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska. // Transcribed and translated Eyak texts, recorded through the 1960s and 1970s.
Krauss 2009 = M. E. Krauss. Eyak Grammar drafts. // Retyped electronic copy of Krauss' ms, ver. 10 (2009); file last updated 2011-04-05. Downloaded from the Alaska Native Language Archive, item EY961K2009 (http://www.uaf.edu/anla/collections/search/resultDetail.xml?resource=10892).
Notes.
We transliterate Krauss' alphabet as follows:
b | p |
m | m |
ʔm | ʔm |
| |
d | t |
t | tʰ |
tʼ | tʼ |
| |
n | n |
ʔn | ʔn |
| |
l | l |
ʔl | ʔl |
ɫ | ɬ |
ʎ, dl | ƛ |
ƛ, tl | ƛʰ |
ƛʼ, tlʼ | ƛʼ |
| |
ʒ, dz | c |
c, ts | cʰ |
cʼ, tsʼ | cʼ |
s | s |
| |
ǯ, dž, j | č |
č, tš, ch | čʰ |
čʼ, tšʼ, chʼ | čʼ |
š, sh | š |
| |
g | k |
k | kʰ |
kʼ | kʼ |
x | x |
gw | kʷ |
xw | xʷ |
| |
ɢ | q |
q | qʰ |
qʼ | qʼ |
x̣ | χ |
| |
h | h |
ʔ | ʔ |
| |
y | y |
ʔy | ʔy |
w | w |
ʔw | ʔw |
| |
V | Vː |
Ṿ, Vn | Ṽ |
Vh | Vh |
Vʔ | Vʔ |
a | a |
e | e |
i | i |
u | u |
ǝ | ǝ |
ä | a |
Database compiled and annotated by: A. Kassian, October 2011 / revised May 2017 (minor corrections).