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Chukchansi
Documentation
and
Revitalization
Project
A Chukchansi Woman
Edward Curtis, 1924
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Chukchansi
is a dialect of Yokuts
one of the major
Penutian languages
of California
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Amerind(superfamily)
|Penutian(family)
|Yokuts
(language)|
Chukchansi(dialect)
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Ethnographic Map of
California Native
Peoples, 1925
(Alfred Kroeber)
North Valley,
Foothills, and
South Valley
Yokuts are the
main divisions of
the language.
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Archaeological evidence places Yokuts people in the valley by at least 8,000 years ago.
A Chukchansi womanEdward Curtis, 1924
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A Chukchansi man
Edward Curtis, 1924
Precontact population ≈70,000—one of the densest populations in native N. America.
This declined to about 600 by 1910, part of the 90% genocide of native peoples.
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Jack Rowan
Chukchansi Yokuts
Edward Curtis, 1924
Current Yokuts population (entire valley and foothills) now about 2500.
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Wikchamne Grammar (1978)Yokuts Texts (1984)Geoff Gamble
Yokuts Language of California (1944)Stanley Newman
Yokuts Grammar: Chukchansi (1968)Thomas Collord
The Yokuts language of south central California (1907)Yokuts Dialect Survery (1963)Alfred Kroeber
Major Works on Yokuts
Audio Archives, UC BerkeleySydney Lamb (1953-57)Sylvia Broadbent (1955-57)Thomas Collord (1965)
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How endangered is Chukchansi?
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Nancy Wyatt, 1961
We need to bring the language back while there are still speakers left to learn from (ten?).
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Yokuts (and Chukchansi in particular) is unique, with extremely rare features in three areas:
Syntax,Morphology,
Phonetics/Phonology
As linguists we want to find out more about Chukchansi and Yokuts generally to better understand the diversity of human language.
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The endangered partand the unique partare related:
.
the very things that make Chukchansi uniqueoften make it harder for second language learners.
This makes the language even more endangered.
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The ProjectBegun
Summer 2009
Fall 2012$1,000,000 grant
over 5 yearsfrom the Picayune Rancheria of the
Chukchansi Indians
to document and revitalize
Chukchansi
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Picayune Rancheria TeamHolly Wyatt, elderJane Wyatt, elder
Kim Lawhon, teacherTribal Teaching Staff
CSU Fresno TeamNiken Adisasmito-Smith, Ling
Brian Agbayani, LingCharles Ettner, Anthro/Ling
Chris Golston, LingCheryl Chan, AEI
A Chukchansi woman
Edward Curtis, 1924
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Documentation
Writing SystemDictionary
Community GrammarLinguistic GrammarRitual LanguageAnnotated TextsResource Library
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Language Documentation
Reference GrammarMaterial gathered in Field Methods in Linguistics course at Fresno State (Spring Semester) and in weekly meetings with Jane and Holly Wyatt
Audience for the reference grammarFor the speakers of the language,
a Community GrammarFor the linguistics community,
a Technical Grammar
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Revitalization
Children’s ClassesAdult ClassesTeacher EducationLiteracy in ChukchansiChukchansi VisibleCeremonial Language
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Goal in language revitalization
The endangered language will once again be spoken by children and adults in their daily activities.
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We have just completed the third revision of ourDictionary, the first of its kind.
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English-Chukchansi
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Chukchansi-English
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Interactive Digital Resources
• Our plan over the next 5 years:
� Link the dictionary to the community grammar so that those studying the language can access grammar notes via the dictionary and vice-versa.
� Link texts to the dictionary and community grammar.
� Link the dictionary, community grammar and texts to cultural notes, video and audio files.
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