Vocabulary of the Kwakiutl Language

Vocabulary of the Kwakiutl Language

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The Kwakiutl language is spoken in three dialects . the Kwakiutl proper,
the Heiltsuk* and the Gyit'ama't. The first is spoken by the tribes of
Vancouver Island and of the coast southeast of Rivers Inlet; the second
by the tribes inhabiting the coast between Rivers Inlet and Gardner
Channel; the last in Gardner and Douglas Channels. It will be found
that phonetics and vocabulary of the northern and southern tribes are
much alike, while the middle dialect stands more apart. This is probably
due to the admixture of Bilqula elements in the central region.
The vocabularies contained in the following pages were collected by
the author in 1886, 1888, 1889, 1890. As slight differences are found between the vocabularies of the various tribes, the tribe from which the
words were collected are given. The following abbreviations have been
used:
L. for Le'kwiltok',
N.—Nimkish,
K.—Kwakiutl,
Tl.—Tlatlasik-oala,
A.—Awi'ky'enoq.
H.—He'iltsuk-,
G.—Gyit'ama't,
Kwakiutl Dialect.
Heiltsuk* Dialect.
Gyit'ama't Dialect.