Tegem-Amira: a previously unrecognised subgroup of Niger-Congo.
Ms.
Lafofa; Amira
laf-lff; laf-ami
A short essay on the history of the study and the current state of knowledge on Tegem and Amira. Includes previously unpublished fieldnotes on these languages, collected by R. Stevenson (Tegem) and the MacDiarmids (Amira).
Stevenson 1983c
Stevenson, Roland C.
Teisei umm Danab (Tese) Work Sheets.
Ms.
Tese
tem-tes
Several hundred basic lexicon items for the Teisei umm Danab, or Tese, language, recorded by Roland Stevenson and scanned by Roger Blench. Most of this data remains officially unpublished.
Several hundred basic lexicon items for the Temein language, recorded by Roland Stevenson and scanned by Roger Blench. Most of this data remains officially unpublished.
Ten'a texts and tales from Anvik, Alaska. With vocabulary by Pliny Earle Goddard.
Leiden: Brill.
Degexit'an
pca-deg
Glossed text collection of the Degexit'an language (Yukon dialect). Very inconsistent transcription.
Goddard 1929
Goddard, P. E.
The Bear River Dialect of Athapascan.
In: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 24, No. 5 (1929). Pp. 291-324.
Mattole
pca-mvb
Vocabulary of the Mattole language (Bear River dialect). Phonetic transcription and semantic definitions are unreliable.
Bray 1934
Bray, Denys
The Brāhūī Language. Part III. Etymological Vocabulary.
Delhi: Manager of publications.
Brahui
bra-bra
The only representative dictionary of the Brahui language, still the most authoritative source on the lexicon of this language. Bray's etymological notes are generally reliable for filtering out traces of external (areal) influences, but somewhat obsolete for material of Dravidian origin.
Houtzagers 1985
Houtzagers, H. P.
1985
The Čakavian dialect of Orlec and the island of Cres.
Brill.
Chakavian, Orlec
slv-orl
The description of a Čakavian dialect with texts and dictionary.
Kalsbeek 1998
Kalsbeek, J.
The Čakavian Dialect of Orbanići near Žminj in Istria.
Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
Cakavian, Orbanici
slv-orb
Description of a Čakavian dialect with texts and dictionary.
Agoyi 1997
Agoyi, T. O.
The category of number and the genetic classification of Èkiròmì.
Paper presented in the departmental seminar series, Department of linguistics and Nigerian languages, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Akpes, Ekiromi
akp-eki
A synchronic and diachronic discussion of the nominal morphology (plural formation, class system) of the Ekiromi dialect of Akpes. Contains some lexical material, including a brief 66-item comparative wordlist on the different varieties of Akpes.
The Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of Mt. Sinai. 2 vols.
Brepols.
Udi, Nidzh; Udi, Vartashen
lez-udn; lez-udv
A detailed edition of ancient texts written in the so-called Caucasian Albanian language.
Dixon 1910
Dixon, Roland B.
The Chimariko Indians and Language.
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 5. No. 5. P. 293-380. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Chimariko
chi-chi
An ethnographic sketch of the Chimariko, accompanied by a short grammar, texts and vocabulary of the Chimariko language. As a rule, Dixon does not distinguish in his records between simple, aspirated and glottalized stops and often writes vowel length instead of glottal stop.
Crawford 1966
Crawford, James M.
The Cocopa Language.
Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.
Cocopa
yum-coc
A descriptive grammar of the Cocopa language.
Thelwall 1981a
Thelwall, Robin
The Daju Language Group. Systematic Phonetics, Lexicostatistics and Lexical Reconstruction.
School of Humanities of the New University of Ulster. D. Phil.
The single most detailed historical-comparative analysis of the Daju languages so far, based almost exclusively upon the author's own field data. Contains a list of Proto-Daju lexical reconstructions together with the comparative data from attested languages, as well as lexicostatistical wordlists.
Driberg 1931
Driberg, Jack H.
The Didinga language.
In:Mitteilungen des Seminars für orientalische Sprachen, 34-III, pp. 139-182.
Didinga
srm-did
A brief, somewhat antiquated and frequently inaccurate, description of Didinga grammar, accompanied with text examples and a large vocabulary.
Tucker, Bryan & Woodburn 1977
Tucker, Archibald; Bryan, Margaret; Woodburn, James
The East African Click Languages: a phonetic comparison.
In: Zur Sprachgeschichte und Ethnohistorie in Afrika. Ed. by Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig, Franz Rottland & Bernd Heine, pp. 300-323.
Sandawe; Hadza
snd-snd; hdz-hdz
A brief description of the phonetic structures of Sandawe, Hadza, and Dahalo, richly illustrated by lexical material.
Bender 1997
Bender, M. Lionel
The Eastern Jebel Languages of Sudan I: Phonology.
In: Afrika und Übersee, 80, pp. 189-215.
Aka; Molo; Kelo; Beni Sheko
jeb-aka; jeb-mol; jeb-kel; jeb-bsh
General notes on the phonologies of four East Jebel lects (Aka, Kelo, Molo, Beni Sheko), including comparative 300-item wordlists collected by the author himself.
Waag 2010
Waag, Christine
The Fur Verb and its Context.
Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
Fur
fur-fvr
A special monographic treatment of the complicated verbal system of Fur. Includes some morphological and lexical data (on verbs) unavailable in other sources.
Maingard 1937
Maingard, Louis F.
The ǂKhomani dialect of Bushman: its morphology and other characteristics.
In: Bushmen of the southern Kalahari. Ed. by J. D. Rheinallt Jones & C. M. Doke. Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, pp. 237-275.
ǂKhomani
kwi-kho
Brief grammar sketch of the ǂKhomani dialect; no separate vocabulary, but including a set of three translated texts in the language.
Ehret 1980
Ehret, Christopher
1980
The Historical Reconstruction of Southern Cushitic Phonology and Vocabulary.
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
Aasax
scu-asa
Comparative phonology and etymology of South Cushitic languages. Contains some language data from previously unpublished sources, most importantly J. C. Winter's recordings of Aasax from 1974.
CHD
[Collective]
The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Chicago, 1980-.
Hittite
ana-oht
Extensive synchronic dictionary of the Hittite language. Ongoing edition.
