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Re: New group to catalogue and discuss possible Yahgan and Salishan

etherman23 — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:33:38 GMT

... That should be http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/YahganSalishan/

New group to catalogue and discuss possible Yahgan and Salishan rela

yahganlang — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:09:47 GMT

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/YaghanSalishan/ All invited to join. Here's a new comparison (hopefully not posted before, but my memory is mush): Salishan

Re: Researcher claims one origin for most Native Americans

rtroike@... — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:25:21 GMT

Jess, When we look at what we can reconstruct back 5,000-6,000 years, in other contexts (Indo-European, Semitic, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian), we still find

Re: Researcher claims one origin for most Native Americans

yahganlang — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:10:03 GMT

... I agree, on the face of it- but weren't some people (I forget if it was Shell, or Key, or others) claiming that the ur-language was isolating, and

Re: Researcher claims one origin for most Native Americans

Marie-Lucie Tarpent — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:53:11 GMT

From the map it seems that the sample of people is not very representative. The article says "dozens of Indian groups" but it also says there were only 19

Re: Researcher claims one origin for most Native Americans

rtroike@... — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:51:18 GMT

Jess, The story says that the allele is carried by both males and females, so it's not clear which would be primarily responsible for transmitting it. Of

Researcher claims one origin for most Native Americans

yahganlang — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:09:27 GMT

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428223836.htm Maternal, perhaps, but what about Dad? If there were pre-Clovis populations that got trounced by

Blast from the Past- Comet 10, Clovis 0

yahganlang — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:18:24 GMT

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080707-canada-diamonds.html It will be very interesting to see whether historical linguists interested in American

I Love Group and Heike Tolerate my chat for solidarity tanks

vein — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:17:41 GMT

I Love Group and Heike Tolerate my chat for solidarity, emotionaly tanks Vei a reader --- On Mon, 5/5/08, Heike Bödeker wrote:

controlled controlled vocal frematus (was: Common spiritual terminol

Heike Bödeker — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:50:37 GMT

Dear Becky, ... You mean something like the "heavy" pronunciation as an oratory style (once) common in the Northern Californian Culture Area? As e.g. in Yurok,

Re: Common spiritual terminology?

Becky Median — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:26:50 GMT

Would you include a special type of speaking like controled vocal frematus in special speaking (no hitting on the body) - just practice in some tribes? Not

Common spiritual terminology?

yahganlang — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:47:38 GMT

Proto- Coast Salish (Kuipers) v for schwa, apostrophe for stress on prior vowel, question mark for glottal stop/glottalization *yvw 'spirit power (to cure,

Re: Native American language taxonomy

Heike Bödeker — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:14:38 GMT

Dear Becky, it is good you keep pursuing your path. Well, to me for one the question "What does it mean?" has been a constant companion. How do languages,

Re: Native American language taxonomy

becky_median — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:49:53 GMT

Maybe you can't have a spirant unless you have a voice. Other sounds would be something else in language, kind of like have to include culture or even

Re: Native American language taxonomy

becky_median — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:19:36 GMT

I can see that someone has taken some time to try to come up with a system for classification and trying to base it also on an evolutionary scale. Big