Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages is a research center in the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, supporting the documentation, study, and revitalization of the indigenous languages of California and the Americas. The Survey maintains a major archive of field notes and other documentary materials, accessible to the public and catalogued in the California Language Archive; some material is digitized and available online. The Survey also curates the collection of linguistic field recordings from the Berkeley Language Center, many of which can be listened to on the CLA website.

The Survey provides financial and logistical support for students and scholars to conduct field work on American languages, including work space, field equipment, and computing facilities. They publish an occasional series of monographs, called Survey Reports. They also sponsor a variety of events, including regular gatherings of the Group in American Indian Languages, the biennial Breath of Life Workshop for California Indian Languages, and occasional workshops on language documentation and revitalization for California Indian communities.

The Survey has worked on the following projects: Documentation of Hupa (Athabaskan), a project comparing lexical evidence from the Kampan subgroup of Arawakan (Peruvian Andes/Amazon) to reconstruct proto-Kampan, the creation of a practical grammar of Kawaiisu (Uto-Aztecan, in conjunction with the Kawaiisu Language and Cultural Center), the documentation of Muniche (Peruvian Amazon, isolate), the Northern Paiute (Uto-Aztecan) language project, and the documentation of Omagua (Brazilian Amazon, Tupi-Guarani creole).

Links for the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
The Survey's website

The Survey's projects