Harry Hoijer


Harry Hoijer was an American linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture. He additionally documented the Tonkawa language, which is now extinct. Hoijer's few works make up the bulk of material on this language. Hoijer was a student of Edward Sapir.
Hoijer contributed greatly to the documentation of the Southern [Athabaskan languages|Southern] and Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages and to the reconstruction of proto-Athabaskan. Harry Hoijer collected a large number of valuable fieldnotes on many Athabaskan languages, which are unpublished. Some of his notes on Lipan Apache and the Tonkawa language are lost.
Hoijer coined the term "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis". He died in Santa Monica, California, on March 4, 1976.

Works by Hoijer

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Works edited by Hoijer

  • Hoijer, Harry.. Language in culture: Conference on the interrelations of language and other aspects of culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Hoijer, Harry.. Studies in the Athapaskan languages. University of California publications in linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Sapir, Edward, & Hoijer, Harry.. Navaho texts. William Dwight Whitney series, Linguistic Society of America.
  • Sapir, Edward, & Hoijer, Harry.. Phonology and morphology of the Navaho language. Berkeley: University of California Press.