University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 10 Until recently but little exact attention was paid to the sounds of American Indian languages. Some of the most valuable grammatical study has been conducted in spite of an uncertain phonetic basis. A large part of the linguistic investigations made have been carried on by men primarily ethnologists, many of whom had their training in biological or other sciences remote from linguistics. Of late, however, the principles and methods of phonetic research established by European scholars have begun to be applied to American Indian languages, largely through the entrance into this field of several students trained in the study of Indo-European philology. The consequence has been so gratifying, that, while work of this nature is still in its infancy so far as native American speech as a whole is concerned, it is already worth while to discuss certain results. The aboriginal languages of California are those with which the writer is most familiar. Careful phonetic examinations of several of these idioms have been made by Dr. P. E. Goddard, Dr. E. Sapir, and Mr. T. T. Waterman, and aural observations are available for others by several authors. Since the number of unrelated languages in the area is large, there is opportunity to establish principles and tendencies common to diverse tongues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.