http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/ yahgan language Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:00:33 GMT rukamew http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/220 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/220 Greetings, I'm Shun Nakamoto, an undergrad student of linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. At the moment I'm working on phonetics, tonal and Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:57:58 GMT JessT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/219 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/219 Hi folks. Just created FB group Languages and Cultures from the Uttermost Part of the Earth. Topics include also (pre)history, archaeology, and so on. Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:15:57 GMT JessT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/218 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/218 This is the early version, from the same time period as the manuscript grammar I discovered at the US Library of Congress. Much less comprehensive, some Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:14:22 GMT JessT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/217 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/217 Oops! bvndal(un), not bondal(un). Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:11:01 GMT JessT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/216 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/216 Still working, have found many new candidate forms since last chimed in. Couple of examples follow: Yahgan wvnamvga 'wrap' vs. ProtoSalish *mvkw(u7) 'to cover Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:19:10 GMT JessT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/215 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/215 Just to let folks here know where things stand on the comparison project, the Salish etymological dictionary by Aert Kuipers has been completely reworked with Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:06:51 GMT JessT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/214 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/214 tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/YahganSalishan But don't rush to sign up just yet! I'm still constructing files and members can alter them at will- I want to find Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:01:46 GMT D RoyM http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/213 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/213 Where are these posted? I don't see them on the waata_chis yahoo group. Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:22:43 GMT linden_del_pentecost http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/212 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/212 Hey; I'm new here... I'm really enthusiastic about languages indigenous to the Americas, I'm 17 and go to a 6th form/college in England where I'm studying Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:15:42 GMT JessT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/211 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/211 A couple of weeks ago I finally 'bit the bullet' and began to systematically work out the comparisons between Yahgan and reconstructed forms from Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:30:43 GMT waata_chis-owner@yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/210 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/210 Forwarded from Yoram Meroz: Dear Matt, To answer some of your questions and to add to the comments of others: -- Yahgan is not as 'verb-heavy' as some other Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:12:14 GMT jess tauber http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/209 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/209 On some of the questions- I've parsed all the biblical texts, and compared them line by line with the King James equivalents, but never had time to Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:33:51 GMT Willem De Reuse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/208 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/208 Hi Matt and all Yahganists: Others can answer these questions better than me, but let me point out a recently published source of primary data on Yahgan, which Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:10:35 GMT Matt Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/207 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/207 Kunta samuta, I hope you'll all forgive the infiltration of this list by an impostor of sorts. As I've already confided to Jess Tauber (who encouraged me to Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:23:57 GMT JessT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/206 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/206 Some of you might find the following amusing: Journal of the Polynesian Society Volume 42, 1933, pp 117-119 YAMANA-ENGLISH: A Dictionary of the Speech of