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[Notes on loanwords in North American languages]

  • Item identifier: Sawyer.051
  • Date: 1959 to 1969
  • Contributor: Jesse O. Sawyer (researcher)
  • Languages: Nahuatl; Patwin (pwi); Wappo (wao)
  • Description: Matierials related to loanwords in Wappo, Patwin, and Nahuatl. Includes partial photocopy of paper "Wappo words from Spanish" (by Sawyer), a handout for a presentation "Spanish contact phenomena in Nahuatl" (by James Lockhart and Frances Karttunen), a handout "European loanwords in Patwin" (by William Bright), and a letter from Madison Beeler discussing the Spanish origin of some loanwords in Wappo.
  • Availability: Materials for Item number Sawyer.051 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can digitize them for you.
  • Extent: 1 folder
  • Collection: Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: [Notes on loanwords in North American languages], Sawyer.051, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1607.