Analysis and Documentation of Cahto Language (ktw) Texts II

FAIN: FN-285795-22

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

Research and writing leading to a book on the analysis of legacy texts in the Cahto language, an indigenous language of Mendocino County, California.

The goal of this project is to analyze legacy texts in the Cahto language (ktw) of Mendocino County, California (Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family), making the texts available to scholars and to the Tribe, and providing a basis for a future Cahto grammar. At least eight of the stories and folktales, including four of the longest extant texts (Goddard, 1909; Goddard, 1902, 1906) will be analyzed in the twelve-month Fellowship period. The Applicant will phonemicize the texts into the practical writing system used by the Cahto Tribe and in the Applicant's previous NEH-funded Cahto projects. The analysis will use the same linguistic database software (SIL's FLex/FieldWorks) as the Dictionary and previous Texts, allowing easy interlinking between dictionary entries and text examples. Fieldwork supported by this Fellowship will link the texts with contemporary community knowledge, including versions of stories still told in English, and other traditions reflected in the texts.

Associated Products

Cahto Dictionary (Webonary) (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Cahto Dictionary (Webonary)
Author: Sally Anderson
Abstract: This is the online Webonary version of the Cahto Dictionary database. The current version was updated in May 2023 from the Flex/Fieldworks database with example forms from the current texts incorporated. 77 new entries have been added, including 28 new headwords and 49 variant or inflected forms. In addition 1691 headword entries have been edited, in most cases by way of connecting text examples; and 522 variants or inflected forms have been edited. This is an ongoing project subject to future updates as work on the remaining texts and with the community continues.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.webonary.org/cahto/
Primary URL Description: This is the URL to the main homepage of the Cahto Webonary site. Tabs on the site lead to front matter, dictionary search, browsing the dictionary, downloadable materials, etc.
Access Model: Open Access

Naahneesh Kowanyaakwilik Analyzed Cahto Texts: Volume 3 - Cultural Texts (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Naahneesh Kowanyaakwilik Analyzed Cahto Texts: Volume 3 - Cultural Texts
Author: Sally Anderson
Abstract: This third volume of Cahto Analyzed texts contains nine full stories and an addendum to one of the texts. The main source for eight of the texts is Pliny E. Goddard (1909) along with the Goddard (1906) field notebook versions of the same stories. The remaining story and the addendum are solely from Goddard's (1906) field notebooks. All of the stories were told by Bill Ray, Goddard's main Cahto consultant. The Cahto words are transcribed into the Community's standard writing system, then in the second line broken into major word parts, then glossed according to the breakdown, and then with a whole word gloss below, and finally grammatical category. After this there follows a somewhat modernized translation, the original author's translation, and the original author's word for word translation (if provided). In the case of the Creation: Part 2 Addendum Goddard provides no translation, so that line is blank. Then finally the original author's transcription of the line(s). In the case of many of the Goddard texts there are two original transcription lines, one from the published text collection (1909) and one from the field notebooks (1906).
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.webonary.org/cahto/files/CahtoAnalyzedTexts_v3_2023.pdf
Primary URL Description: This the link to directly download the Cahto Texts volume 3 pdf document from the author's Cahto site on SIL's Webonary.
Access Model: Open Access

Cahto Main Lexicon: Simplified format to be scannable in future (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Cahto Main Lexicon: Simplified format to be scannable in future
Author: Sally Anderson
Abstract: This is the printable version of the 2023 update to the Cahto Dictionary, presented in a simplified format for the archived printout to be scannable in a future if the electronic copies are lost, and fewer pages for Community members and others who want to print out the dictionary.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.webonary.org/cahto/files/CahtoMainLexicon_2023.pdf
Primary URL Description: This the link to directly download the Cahto Main Lexicon pdf document from the author's Cahto site on SIL's Webonary.
Access Model: Open Access

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