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Hupa (native name: Na꞉tinixwe Mixine꞉wheʼ, lit. ' language of the Hoopa Valley people ') is an Athabaskan language (of Na-Dené stock) spoken along the lower course of the Trinity River in Northwestern California by the Hoopa Valley Hupa (Na꞉tinixwe) and Tsnungwe/South Fork Hupa (Tse꞉ningxwe) and, before European contact, by the Chilula and Whilkut peoples, to the west.
The Hupa (Yurok: Huep'oola' / Huep'oolaa 'Hupa people' [3]) are a Native American people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group in northwestern California. Their endonym is dining’xine:wh for Hupa-language speakers in general, and na:tinixwe for residents of Hoopa Valley, [ 4 ] also spelled Natinook-wa , meaning "People of the Place ...
The Hup language (also called Hupdë, [3] Hupdá, Hupdé, Hupdá Makú, Jupdá, Makú, Makú-Hupdá, Makú De, Hupda, and Jupde) is one of the four Naduhup languages. It is spoken by the Hupda indigenous Amazonian peoples who live on the border between Colombia and the Brazilian state of Amazonas .
The primary language was the Tsnungwe dialect of Hupa, and the secondary language was Chimariko, although spoken with a Hupa accent. [ 3 ] The Tsnungwe include two sub-groups called łe:lxwe ('People of łe:l-ding ') after their most important settlement and religious center, and the Chima:lxwe' / Chimalakwe / Tł'oh-mitah-xwe ('grass, prairies ...
Verdena Leona Parker (née Chase; born March 1, 1936) is the last fluent speaker of the Hupa language, [1] an Athabaskan language spoken by the Hoopa Valley Tribe, indigenous to northern California. While other children of her generation were sent to boarding schools, isolating them from their families, Parker was raised by her grandmother, who ...
Pliny Earle Goddard (November 24, 1869 – July 12, 1928) was an American linguist and ethnologist noted for his extensive documentation of the languages and cultures of the Athabaskan peoples of western North America.
The Hupa people of modern times number in the several thousands and live in the Hoopa Valley located in Humboldt County, California. The oral literature of the Hupa is markedly similar to that of their linguistically unrelated neighbors, the Karuk and Yurok. It differs from the traditional narratives of most California groups, but shows ...
consonant sound symbolism: in Yurok, Wiyot, Hupa, Tolowa, Karuk, and Yana; Washo, spoken in the Great Basin area, shares some traits common to the Northern California linguistic area. pronominal dual; quinary/decimal numeral system; absence of vowel-initial syllables; free stress