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Hupa

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Noun1.Hupa - a member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in CaliforniaHupa - a member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California
Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athabascan - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska
2.Hupa - the Athapaskan language spoken by the Hupa
Athabascan, Athapaskan language, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)


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Many unpublicized or "whitewashed" parts of the history of the Karuk, Yurok, and Hupa peoples of the Klamath River area in northwestern California are also described in painful detail.
Following an introductory overview of the concept of linguistic relativity, O'Neill compares various aspects of the Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk linguistic and cultural systems including spatial concepts, the semantics of time, and general issues of taxonomy and vocabulary.
The paradigm of OPPIMA is based on opi and 'oppi, just as the paradigm of HUPPAMA is based on hupa and 'huppa.
 
 
 
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