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Galice creek being the most distinct. In the southern portion of the 

 area, on Eel river and the coast, are several dialects differing much 

 more in vocabulary than in phonetics. That Indians from the ex- 

 tremes of this territory can converse in their respective languages is 

 not probable. On lower Mattole and Bear rivers and the adjacent 

 coast a very distinct dialect was spoken. In the middle of this Pacific 

 coast division are two dialects very closely connected. One of them 

 was formerly spoken on upper Redwood creek and middle Mad river in 

 Humboldt county, California; and the other, the Hupa of which this 

 paper treats, on the lower (northern) portion of the Trinity river. 



The villages speaking the Hupa dialect have for neighbors, to the 

 north the Yurok, to the northeast the Karok, to the east the Shasta, 

 but with high mountains intervening, to the south the Chimariko and 

 Wintun, and to the west the Athapascans of Redwood creek. 



Texts of myths, tales, and medicine formulas collected by the author 

 were published by the University of California,^ upon which, as 

 a basis, an analytical study of the morphology of the language has 

 been made.^ A preliminary paper describing in detail the individual 

 sounds of the language and illustrating them by means of palatograms 

 and tracings has been published.^ The examples given in the follow- 

 ing grammatical sketch are taken from the collection of Hupa texts 

 published by the University of California. The figures refer to 

 pages and lines. 



PHONETICS (§§2-4) 



§ 2. Sounds 



Among the sounds composing the Hupa language, consonantal con- 

 tinuants predominate. This takes from the speech the definiteness 

 produced by a predominance of stops, and the musical character im- 

 parted by full clear vowels standing alone or scantily attended by 

 consonants in the syllable. 



The stops are entirely lacking in one of the most important series, 

 the labial. Hupa has neither j) nor h. The latter is often found in 

 many of the other Athapascan dialects of the Pacific coast division. 

 In Hupa the corresponding words have iii in place of J. The back 



1 For a general account of the Hupa villages and their surroundings, see P. E. Goddard, Life and 

 Culture of the Hupa. University of California Publications, American Archxology and Ethnology,!, 

 no. 1. — Hupa Texts, idem, i, no. 2. 



-The Morphology of the Hupa Language, idem, in. 



'The Phonology of the Hupa Language.— Part I, idem, v, no. 1 



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