October 11, 2026
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- CLA GSR Tzintia Montaño has written the first in a forthcoming series of blog posts about our Mixtec language holdings!
- In collaboration with Ángel Bittancourt Serra and Quelina Witancourt Guerrero, Amalia Skilton (PhD 2019) has accessioned transcriptions of 35 hours of caregiver-child interactions and other conversations in Ticuna (isolate; Peru). The transcriptions can be found in their own items with relations to items containing corresponding audiovisual files, with detailed descriptions of the contents of the files and their relationships among each other (see especially items 2018-19.085 thru 2018-19.123, 2018-19.158 thru 2018-19.191, and 2018-19.213 thru 2018-19.223). Items 2018-19.038 and 2018-19.134 contain guides to the orthography and transcription practices, respectively.
- We've accessioned the Roderick Jacobs Collection of Cupeño Language Materials (Uto-Aztecan; CA), combining original field notes and other miscellaneous papers donated by Jacobs's wife in 2021 with two items previously held by the CLA. Jacobs (1934-2018) worked from the late 1960s with Cupeño elder Roscinda Nolasquez (1892-1987), receiving a PhD in Linguistics at UC San Diego in 1972 with a dissertation titled "Syntactic Change: A Cupan (Uto-Aztecan) Case Study." Mrs. Nolasquez co-authored multiple books including "Mulu'wetam: The First People," with anthropologist Jane Hill in 1973.
- We've accessioned a small collection of materials from the 1990-1991 Berkeley graduate field methods course on Chalcatongo de Hidalgo Mixtec (Otomanguean; Mexico). The language consultant was Luciano Cortés Nicolás and the instructor was Leanne Hinton.
- Line Mikkelsen, Hannah Sande, and Julianne Kapner have added new materials to their and their collaborators' collections on Kalaallisut (2022-13.248 thru 2022-13.263 here), Guébie (2014-15.258 thru 2014-15.294 here), and Armenian (2024-13.061 thru 2024-13.071 here).
- University of New Mexico PhD candidate Ivette González Castillo, María Eloísa González Castro, and their collaborators have accessioned the first portion of a new collection of materials on Pa Ipai (Yuman; Mexico). The collection consists of audiovisual recordings of conversations, procedural activities, and staged communicative events, including interactions prompted by a board game and scripted performances written and enacted by Pa Ipai speakers.