Witsuwit'en Grammar: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology
Sharon Hargus, "Witsuwit'en Grammar: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology "
English | ISBN: 0774813822 | 2007 | 850 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0774813822 | 2007 | 850 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Witsuwit’en is an endangered First Nations language spoken in western-central British Columbia. A member of the Athapaskan family of languages, the language had been known to have some intriguing characteristics of consonant-vowel interaction, the details of which have been in dispute among scholars.
Witsuwit’en Grammar presents acoustic studies of several aspects of Witsuwit’en phonetics, including vowel quality, vowel quantity, ejectives, voice quality, and stress. Information about the sound system and word structure of Witsuwit’en is also provided, revealing many unusual features not previously described in this level of detail for an Athapaskan language.
Witsuwit’en has elaborate morphology, even by the standards of the Athapaskan language family.
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