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Hare Phonology: An Historical Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Harry Hoijer
Harry Hoijer*
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University of California, Los Angeles
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The Hare Indians, according to Jenness, lived in northwestern Canada, ‘west and northwest of Great Bear lake, extending in the east to a little beyond the Anderson river, and in the west to the first line of mountains west of the Mackenzie river’. Their language, spoken by about four or five hundred people, belongs to the Athapaskan stock.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 42 , Issue 2: April-June , June 1966 , pp. 499 - 507
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Copyright © 1966 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Diamond Jenness, Indians of Canada 394 (National Museum of Canada, Bulletin 65, sixth edition, 1963).

2 The cluster ie is not to be confused with the diphthong ie. Clusters are written with tone marks over each vowel, the diphthong with a tone mark only over the second vowel.

3 Hare b and m are not in complementary distribution; in prefixes b occurs before both oral and nasal vowels.

4 Where more than one stem is cited for a verb, the first is the imperfective (ipf.) the second the perfective (pf.), and the third the progressive (prog.). Nouns may also be cited with two stems; the first is the absolute form, the second the stem preceded by a possessive pronoun prefix.

5 Selected writings of Edward Sapir 73–82 (David Mandelbaum, ed.; Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1949).

6 Michael E. Krauss, ‘Proto-Athapaskan-Eyak and the problem of Na-Dene: The phonology’, IJAL 30.118–31 (1964).

7 Krauss, op.cit. See also Fang-Kuei Li, Mattole 16–30, and ‘Chipewyan consonants’, Ts'ai Yüan P'ei anniversary volume = Supplementary Volume I of the Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 450–8 (1933).

8 Krauss, op.cit. 121.