Dictionary and Documentation of the Cahto Language, a Native American Language

FAIN: FN-255579-17

Sally R. Anderson
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Bothell, WA 98012-6739)

Fieldwork and research to create a dictionary of Cahto (Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit), a dormant Native American language of Medocino County, California.

This Language Description and Infrastructure project will create the first dictionary of the Cahto (Kato) language of Mendocino County, California (Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family). This dictionary will be made available in printable electronic formats; through a searchable online Webonary interface; and as an Android app. The project will build on the applicant's previous work that has focused on building a comprehensive database of lexical forms from the published and unpublished resources on the language, enriched where possible with forms given by living rememberers. This fellowship would support the reworking of the existing database into headwords in a standard practical orthography, further editing the entries, and the editing of front and back matter. The proposed dictionary will include as appendices a listing by semantic categories and a morpheme list cross-referenced to the scholarly literature on Proto-Athabaskan and Proto-California-Athabaskan. A printable dictionary of the Cahto language, useful to tribal language learners, regional historians, and scholars alike, is the goal of this fellowship. (Edited by staff)

Associated Products

Cahto Webonary (Web Resource)
Title: Cahto Webonary
Author: Sally R. Anderson
Abstract: This is an online interface to the author's Cahto dictionary database, providing search capability, and serving the data themselves. Interfaces are available in Cahto to English or English to Cahto browsing, Semantic category browsing, and searching. In addition the site serves as a location for serving the full Dictionary and other products to be downloadable. The interface itself is a product of Summer Institute of Linguistics, who are the creators of the linguistic database software used for this project, FLex.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: http://cahto.webonary.org
Primary URL Description: Url to the main page of the Cahto Webonary
Secondary URL: http://https://cahto.webonary.org/download/
Secondary URL Description: This is the downloads page on the Cahto Webonary site, where pdf copies of the printable products are hosted

Cahto Dictionary - Naahneesh Kwineeshee' (Book)
Title: Cahto Dictionary - Naahneesh Kwineeshee'
Author: Sally R. Anderson
Editor: Sally R. Anderson
Abstract: A comprehensive dictionary of the Cahto (ktw) California Athabaskan language lexicon, gathered from historical sources, mostly in the first half of the 20th century, but including documentation from the author's own field research with recent and living rememberers. In addition to the lexicon itself, there is a preliminary grammatical introduction, and several appendices.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://cahto.webonary.org/files/CahtoDictionary_2018WebEdition.pdf
Primary URL Description: This url is a direct link to download the full version of the dictionary
Access Model: open access
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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