Handbook of American Indian Languages

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language survey linguistics book reference work

The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.

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Label	Occurrences
Handbook of American Indian Languages canonical	2
Boas, Franz (ed.). Handbook of American Indian Languages.	1
Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 1	1
Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 2	1
Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 3	1
The Chimariko Indians and Language	1
The Languages of the South American Indians	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124822 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Handbook of American Indian Languages
Context triple: [Franz Boas, notableWork, Handbook of American Indian Languages]

A. Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project is a community-driven initiative to revive and teach the ancestral Wampanoag language after generations of dormancy.
B. Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
C. Wampanoag language
The Wampanoag language is an Algonquian Native American language of the northeastern United States that has been the focus of significant revitalization efforts after having no native speakers for many generations.
D. Maricopa language
Maricopa language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Maricopa people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
E. Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages are a large family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken from the Atlantic Coast to the Great Plains, including well-known languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, and Wampanoag.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Handbook of American Indian Languages
Target entity description: The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.

A. Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project is a community-driven initiative to revive and teach the ancestral Wampanoag language after generations of dormancy.
B. Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
C. Wampanoag language
The Wampanoag language is an Algonquian Native American language of the northeastern United States that has been the focus of significant revitalization efforts after having no native speakers for many generations.
D. Maricopa language
Maricopa language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Maricopa people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
E. Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages are a large family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken from the Atlantic Coast to the Great Plains, including well-known languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, and Wampanoag.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	language survey ⓘ linguistics book ⓘ reference work ⓘ
aim	to document and analyze Indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ
approach	comparative ⓘ descriptive ⓘ
associatedWith	Boasian linguistics ⓘ
author	Franz Boas ⓘ
citationForm	Boas, Franz (ed.). Handbook of American Indian Languages. ⓘ linked to: Handbook of American Indian Languages
contains	grammatical sketches of individual Indigenous languages ⓘ morphological analyses ⓘ phonological descriptions ⓘ syntactic descriptions ⓘ text samples in Indigenous languages ⓘ
countryOfPublication	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
editor	Franz Boas ⓘ
era	pre-structuralist linguistics ⓘ
field	American Indian linguistics ⓘ descriptive linguistics ⓘ linguistics ⓘ
firstVolumePublicationYear	1911 ⓘ
geographicScope	Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ
hasContributor	various field linguists and ethnographers ⓘ
hasPart	Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 1 ⓘ linked to: Handbook of American Indian Languages Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 2 ⓘ linked to: Handbook of American Indian Languages Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 3 ⓘ linked to: Handbook of American Indian Languages
influenced	later classifications of Native American languages ⓘ structural linguistics in North America ⓘ
institutionalContext	Bureau of American Ethnology research program ⓘ
isConsidered	classic of Americanist linguistics ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
notableFor	foundational work in American Indian linguistics ⓘ systematic description of numerous American Indian languages ⓘ
publicationSeries	Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin ⓘ linked to: Bureau of American Ethnology
publisher	Bureau of American Ethnology ⓘ Smithsonian Institution ⓘ
secondVolumePublicationYear	1922 ⓘ
subject	Indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ Native American languages ⓘ grammatical description ⓘ language classification ⓘ
thirdVolumePublicationYear	1923 ⓘ
timePeriod	early 20th century ⓘ
volumeCount	3 ⓘ

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