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The California Language Archive is a physical and digital archive for materials related to the Indigenous languages of the Americas, housed in the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Our catalog also includes sound recordings held by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

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Gilbert Natches's Northern Paiute documentation

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Photo of Cucapá community members

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El fortalecimiento de la lengua cucapá

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Hand-drawn map of the river system in the area where Matsigenka is spoken

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Anna Lewington Collection of Matsigenka and Yine Recordings

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