Wiyot (Sprache)

Wiyot (auch Wishosk; wíyat, indigener Name für d​as Delta d​es Eel River bzw. für e​ine Hauptgruppe d​er Wyots[1]) i​st eine ausgestorbene, indigene amerikanische Sprache, d​ie zur Algischen Sprachfamilie gehört.[2]

Wiyot

Gesprochen in

 Kalifornien (USA)
Sprecher ausgestorben
Linguistische
Klassifikation

Indigene amerikanische Sprachen

Sprachcodes
ISO 639-1

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ISO 639-2

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ISO 639-3

wiy

Diese Sprache w​urde früher v​om Volk d​er Wiyot a​n der Humboldt Bay i​n Kalifornien gesprochen. Der letzte Muttersprachler, Della Prince, s​tarb 1962. Einige Wiyots versuchen d​iese Sprache wiederzubeleben.[3]

Klassifikation

Das Wiyot w​ird mit Yurok z​ur Ritwan-Sprachfamilie zusammengefasst. Diese zusammen m​it den Algonkin-Sprachen bilden wiederum d​ie Algische Sprachfamilie. Während d​ie Klassifikation d​er algischen Sprachen gemeinhin anerkannt wird, i​st die Postulierung d​er Ritwan-Sprachfamilie umstritten.

Literatur
  • Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Dixon, Roland; & Kroeber, Alfred L. (1913). New linguistic families in California. American Anthropologist, 5, 1–26.
  • Elsasser, Albert B. (1978). Wiyot. In R. F. Heizer (Ed.), California (pp. 153–163). Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 8) (W. C. Sturtevant (Ed.)). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution.
  • Goddard, Ives. (1975). Algonquian, Wiyot, and Yurok: Proving a distant genetic relationship. In M. D. Kinkade, K. L. Hale, & O. Werner (Eds.), Linguistics and anthropology in honor of C. F. Voegelin (pp. 249–262). Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press.
  • Goddard, Ives. (1979). Comparative Algonquian. In L. Campbell & M. Mithun (Eds.), The languages of native America: Historical and comparative assessment (pp. 70–132). Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Goddard, Ives. (1990). Algonquian linguistic change and reconstruction. In P. Baldi (Ed.), Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology (pp. 99–114). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Haas, Mary R. (1958). Algonkian-Ritwan: The end of a controversy. International Journal of American Linguistics, 24, 159–173.
  • Michelson, Truman. 1914. Two alleged Algonquian languages of California. American Anthropologist, 16, 361–367.
  • Michelson, Truman. 1915. Rejoinder (to Edward Sapir). American Anthropologist, 17, 4–8.
  • Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
  • Sapir, Edward. 1913. Wiyot and Yurok, Algonkin languages of California. American Anthropologist, 15, 617–646.
  • Sapir, Edward. (1915)a. Algonkin languages of California: A reply. American Anthropologist, 17, 188–194.
  • Sapir, Edward. (1915)b. Epilogue. American Anthropologist, 17, 198.
  • Teeter, Karl V. (1964)a. Algonquian languages and genetic relationship. In Proceedings of the ninth international congress of linguists (pp. 1026–1033). The Hague: Mouton.
  • Teeter, Karl V. (1964)b. The Wiyot language. University of California publications in linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Einzelnachweise
  1. Campbell (1997:401)
  2. Campbell (1997:152)
  3. Wiyot. In: Native-Languages.org. Abgerufen am 26. September 2009.
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