Karuk is spoken by some 40 people along the Klamath river in northwest of California in the USA. It is very little in common with any other language, but has been classified as a member of the northern group of Hokan languages, along Chimariko and Shasta, which are spoken in the same area. The name Karuk, which is also written Karok, comes from the word Káruk, which means 'upriver' in the Karuk language.
A grammar of Karuk was produced by the linguist William Bright in 1957, a time when several hundred people spoken the language. The number of speakers has declined significantly since then.
In the 1970s and 1980s, ways to write Karuk, and other Native American languages of California, with Unifon were devised by Tom Parsons (1930-2018), the director of Humboldt State University's Community Development Center.
The Karuk by the Karuk Language Restoration Committee works in conjunction with Karuk tribal members and the Karuk Tribal Council to assist in reviving the Karuk language.
Information about Karuk | Phrases | Numbers
Information about the Karuk language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuk_language
http://www.karuk.org
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuk
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/languages/karuk.php
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~karuk/links.php
http://www.native-languages.org/karok.htm
http://www.ourmothertongues.org/language/Karuk/18
Karuk dictionary
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~karuk/index.php
Official website of the Karuk Tribe
http://www.karuk.us
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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