110-item wordlists for the Haida group (Haida family).

Languages included: Haida Southern, Haida Northern.

Enrico’s (2005) dictionary covers both the Southern (Skidegate [S]; more archaic phonetically) and Northern (Masset [M] & Alaskan [A], very close to each other) dialects. The wordlists are compiled for the Skidegate and Masset idioms. Alaskan counterparts are normally quoted in comments on Masset entries. Comments referring to both S and M dialects are placed in the special field “Common Haida notes”. Possible cognates in Na-Dene languages are quoted after Enrico 2005, following his own transcription and reconstruction (“PA” means “Proto-Athabaskan”). We transliterate Enrico’s (2003; 2005) Haida alphabet as follows:

Enrico	Current
b	p
p	pʰ
pʼ	pʼ
m	m
ʼm	mʼ

d	t
t	tʰ
tʼ	tʼ
n	n
ʼn	nʼ

j	c
ts	cʰ
tsʼ	cʼ
s	s

dl	ƛ
tl	ƛʰ
tlʼ	ƛʼ
hl	ɬ
l	l
ʼl	lʼ

g	k
k	kʰ
kʼ	kʼ
ng	ŋ
c	x

r	q (Skidegate)
r	ʡ (Masset & Alaskan)
G	q (Masset & Alaskan, in loanwords)
q	qʰ
qʼ	qʼ
x	ꭓ (Skidegate)
x	ħ (Masset & Alaskan)
X	ꭓ (Masset & Alaskan, in loanwords)

7	ʔ
h	h

y	y
w	w

.	. (an abstract, phonetically unrealized consonant in M & A)

VV	Vː
@	ə
V́	V́ (high tone in A and rarely in S)
V̀	V̀ (low tone in S & M)
	neutral (middle) tone is unmarked in all dialects

References

Enrico, John. 2003. Haida syntax (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians). 2 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Enrico, John. 2005. Haida dictionary: Skidegate, Masset, and Alaskan dialects. 2 vols. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center.

Author:

Haida Southern: Alexei S. Kassian, 2011

Haida Northern: Alexei S. Kassian, 2011

The Haida Southern and Haida Northern wordlists were previously published in: Starostin, George S. (ed.). 2011-2019. Global lexicostatistical database. http://starling.rinet.ru/new100/main.htm