March 14, 2012

Look at Project Gutenberg re: ERB and Mars - March 13, 2012

Top 100 EBooks yesterday

1.A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (2179)
2.The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (791)
3.The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (675)
4.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (655)
5.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (646)
6.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (619)
7.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (614)
8.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (588)
9.Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (528)
10.Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (524)
11.English Literature by William J. Long (518)
12.Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (507)
13.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (487)
14.How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict (485)
15.Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (468)
16.Ulysses by James Joyce (420)
17.The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 (419)
18.Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (411)
19.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (388)
20.The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (376)
21.Creation Myths of Primitive America by Jeremiah Curtin (353)
22.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (341)
23.The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (335)



Top 100 Authors yesterday

1.Burroughs, Edgar Rice (6170)
2.Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir (3095)
3.Twain, Mark (2471)
4.Dickens, Charles (2323)
5.Austen, Jane (1726)
6.Shakespeare, William (1687)
7.Poe, Edgar Allan (1187)
8.Carroll, Lewis (1117)
9.Verne, Jules (1080)
10.Wilde, Oscar (1049)
11.Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1019)
12.Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) (945)
13.Tolstoy, Leo, graf (845)
14.Kafka, Franz (844)
15.Grimm, Wilhelm (844)
16.Grimm, Jacob (844)
17.Vatsyayana (817)
18.Bhide, Shivaram Parashuram (791)
19.Indrajit, Bhagavanlal (791)
20.Joyce, James (789)
21.Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) (782)
22.Plato (780)
23.Dumas, Alexandre (740)
24.Stevenson, Robert Louis (724)
25.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (684)

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

March 8, 2012

Book - How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-On-One Language Learning

http://www.amazon.com/Keep-Your-Language-Alive-One/dp/1890771422/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

There are local language classes available in Karuk along the lower Klamath River including for children.

Another relatively recent book about Klamath Mountain Tribes is:

Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California

http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Linguistic-Relativity-Northwestern-California/dp/0806139226/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331230568&sr=1-1

I recommend clicking "search inside this book" for a closeup on the ancestral ranges of the Tribes and then "first pages" for what is excellent contemporary scholarship.

Karuk was once considered Hokan but is now classified as a language isolate.

The adjacent Hupa and Yurok Tribes originally spoke languages in the Athabascan and Alaquonkin (sp?) linguistic families and came after the Karuk but adopted Karuk spiritual and material cultures. Some native speakers survived until relatively recent times and there are dictionaries / lexicons recorded by cataloguing anthropologists.

Edit to add:

Now You're Speaking Karuk! (Arar'ahih - the People's Language)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000NWEMP4/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all

Amazon says not available but I am pretty sure one can still buy on far north coast California. I am almost certain the book can be found at Clark Museum in Old Town Eureka.