Nootka Texts

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Nootka Texts is a seminal early 20th-century linguistic and ethnographic collection of narratives in the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) language, documenting its structure, vocabulary, and oral traditions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
ethnographic collection
linguistic text
text collection
associatedWithPeople Nuu-chah-nulth peoples
surface form: Nuu-chah-nulth people
associatedWithRegion Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples
surface form: Northwest Coast of North America
contribution early documentation of Nuu-chah-nulth morphology
early documentation of Nuu-chah-nulth phonology
early documentation of Nuu-chah-nulth syntax
preservation of Nuu-chah-nulth oral traditions
describedAs seminal early 20th-century ethnographic collection
seminal early 20th-century linguistic collection
seminal work in Nuu-chah-nulth linguistics
documents discourse patterns of the Nuu-chah-nulth language
grammar of the Nuu-chah-nulth language
lexicon of the Nuu-chah-nulth language
era early 20th century
field Native American linguistics
anthropology
ethnography
linguistics
focus oral traditions of the Nuu-chah-nulth people
structure of the Nuu-chah-nulth language
vocabulary of the Nuu-chah-nulth language
genre ethnographic text
linguistic corpus
hasContent myths
narrative texts
oral narratives
traditional stories
intendedAudience anthropologists
ethnographers
linguists
scholars of Indigenous languages of North America
languageDocumented Nootka language
Nuu-chah-nulth language
subject Nuu-chah-nulth ethnography
Nuu-chah-nulth peoples
surface form: Nuu-chah-nulth folklore

Nuu-chah-nulth narratives
Nuu-chah-nulth oral literature
timePeriodDocumented early 20th century
title Nootka Texts self-link
usedAs primary source for Nuu-chah-nulth language documentation
usedIn comparative studies of Wakashan languages
historical linguistics of the Pacific Northwest

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Edward Sapir notableWork Nootka Texts
Nootka Texts title Nootka Texts self-link