Our project is a collaboration between the Karuk Tribe and the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, UC Berkeley. The Karuk dictionary is the work of William Bright and Susan Gehr, with additional contrbutions, editing, and computer coding by Berkeley project participants. The Karuk texts have been put into their online format at Berkeley, based on published editions by William Bright, J. P. Harrington, and others.
Project participants, collaborators, and contributors include Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen at UC Berkeley; Karuk tribal linguist Susan Gehr; Karuk master speakers, including Sonny Davis and the late Lucille Albers, Charlie Thom, and Vina Smith; Karuk language teachers, including Julian Lang, Crystal Richardson, Florrine Super; and UC Berkeley graduate students Erik Maier and Clare Sandy and UC Berkeley graduate Karie Moorman. Those who have participated at Berkeley also include many current and former graduate students (including Nicholas Baier, Kayla Carpenter, Erin Donnelly, Matthew Faytak, Kelsey Neely, Melanie Redeye, and Tammy Stark) and undergraduate students (including Shane Bilowitz, Anna Currey, Kouros Falati, Nina Gliozzo, Morgan Jacobs, Olga Pipko, Jeff Spingeld, and Whitney White). (Some of our work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1065620; opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We have also received financial support from UC Berkeley and generous logistical support from the Karuk Tribe.)
| ADJ | Adjective |
| ADV | Adverb |
| def. art. | definite article |
| Denom. | Denominative |
| Det | Determiner |
| Dimin. | Diminutive |
| du. pl. | Dual plural (exactly two people, things, etc.) |
| e.g. | for example |
| equiv. | equivalent |
| esp. | especially |
| Gram: | Grammatical analysis |
| i.e. | that is |
| IMP | Imperative (command) |
| INTERJ | Interjection |
| Lit. | Literally |
| Lit: | Literally |
| LOC | Locational |
| N | Noun |
| Neg | Negative |
| no. | number |
| Obj. | Object |
| perh. | perhaps |
| pl. | plural |
| POSS | Possessive |
| POSTF | Postfix (see G p. 29) |
| POSTP | Postposition |
| PREF | Prefix |
| PROF | Profix (see G p. 29) |
| PRON | Pronoun |
| PTCL | Particle |
| Ref: | Reference (to textual source) |
| sg. | singular |
| sp. | species |
| Subj. | Subject |
| SUFF | Suffix |
| Top | Topic (see G 833.1) |
| V | Verb |
| 1pl. | First person plural, 'we' |
| 1sg. | First person singular, 'I' |
| 2pl. | Second person plural, 'you' (all) |
| 2sg. | Second person singular, 'you' |
| 3pl. | Third person plural, 'they' |
| 3sg. | Third person singular, 'he, she, it' |
| FF | Fannie Fisher personal names list manuscript, loaned by Leaf Hillman |
| G | "Grammar" section of William Bright, The Karok Language (1957). |
| H | John P. Harrington (in biological identifications) |
| IJAL | International Journal of American Linguistics |
| ITIS | Integrated Taxonomic Information System |
| JPH | John P. Harrington |
| KM | "Karuk Myths", JPH 1932b |
| KS | "Karuk Stories", transcribed by JPH, edited by Jim Ferrara |
| KV | "Karuk Verbs", unpublished file slips collection of William Bright |
| M | C. Hart Merriam (in biological identifications) |
| NPDC | National Plant Data Center |
| T | "Texts" section in William Bright, The Karok Language (1957). |
| TK | "Tobacco Among the Karuk", JPH 1932a |
| WB | William Bright |
The work of project participants at Berkeley and in the Karuk Tribe has been supported by many sources, including the following: