October 24, 2021
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- We hosted a visit by Wanda Batchelor, Robin Bradley, Clyde Prout III, and Travis Young, with linguist Sheri Tatsch, who together consulted linguistic field notes, file slips, and sound recordings related to Nisenan (Maiduan; CA), especially those by Richard Smith and Hans Jørgen Uldall. Wanda and Robin are the great-granddaughters of speaker Lizzie Enos. During the visit, sponsored by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, we also went over sound recordings, slides, and 16mm film held by the Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
- We also hosted introductory visits by the Society for Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) and by the students of Linguistics R1B "Endangered Languages: Why does linguistic diversity matter?" taught by linguistics PhD candidate Julia Nee.