Hupa Verbs

From A Short Practical Grammar of Hupa by Victor Golla, for the Hupa Language Program, Hoopa Valley Tribe, December 1985.

"S" Definite Tense Subject Prefixes with No Modifying Prefix Examples

Subject	Subject Prefix	to get hurt	to be born
I	se:	se:-ya:t	se:lan
You	sin	sin-ya:t	sil-la:n
He/She	ts'is	ts'is-ya:t	ts'is-la:n
We	si-di	si-di-ya:t	si-di-la:n
You all	soh	soh-ya:t	soh-la:n
They	ya:-'is	ya:-'is-ya:t	ya:-'is-la:n

Comments Added by Danny Ammon

Notice the verbs all have specific "stems". To get hurt has a verb stem of -ya:t. To be born has a verb stem of -la:n.

The subject is determined by a piece of the word such as se:-, ts'is-, si-di-, ... All of the subject markers contain some form of a "s" sound.