http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/ yahgan language Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:37:59 GMT JessT http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/195 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/195 http://www.archive.org/details/gospelofsluketra00brid http://www.archive.org/details/gospeljonecamana00brid Jess Tauber Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:21:47 GMT JessT http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/194 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/194 http://www.archive.org/details/aposlndianuztagu00brid I was very surprised to see this today, doing my semi-regular websearches for new materials. If you Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:43:34 GMT JessT http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/193 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/193 Let us not forget also words for 'fox', such as Yahgan chiloaia, Salishan *s-n-k'vl(-ap) 'coyote'(s nominalizer, n- 'in', -ap 'base, buttocks'), etc. Some Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:45:17 GMT Pedro Viegas Barros http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/192 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/192 Es interesante que parezca haber palabras muy antiguas para 'perro' en lenguas patagonicas.   Asi, para el Proto-Chon se puede reconstruir (Viegas Barros Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:04:39 GMT JessT http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/191 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/191 According to the article, the closest living genetic relative is the 'maned wolf' of South America, and there are fossil canids that died out thousands of Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:59:09 GMT Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/190 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/190 AFAIK this wolf has somehow related to the actual dogs & foxes found in southern Chile & Argentina ... AFAIK this wolf has somehow related to the actual dogs & Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:06:12 GMT JessT http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/189 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/189 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102121449.htm Interesting stuff. Jess Tauber Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:00:30 GMT yahganlang http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/188 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/188 I went online to help me understand some of these biblical passages. The reference to the day in John 1:39 seems to depend on the fact that the Jews at that Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:28:11 GMT David Timpe http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/187 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/187 I think 'for' in the King James text means either 'because' or 'since' in modern English. As far as shinchix is concerned, I'm notally naive on the subject of Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:32:38 GMT yahganlang http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/186 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/186 Who knows how many others yet to be found! John 1:39 (print version) kvku:ta:nude: kvnde:kaia, mvtalagvnhaina:pai. kvmvtalagvna:pikinde: kvnjimin tu:mu:tun, Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:02:47 GMT yahganlang http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/185 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/185 Been very busy of late- too many different projects, and now I've had to run to make sure I get credit for a discovery I made in chemistry 30 years ago that Tue, 12 May 2009 20:39:55 GMT yahganlang http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/184 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/184 ((continuing p. 3)) On the Transposition of Letters Words beginning with h lose it when any prefix is placed before them, and no word has h anywhere but at the Tue, 12 May 2009 20:39:37 GMT yahganlang http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/183 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/183 Yahgan words, except for proper names, will be in lower case, even if they begin a sentence, as will any glosses accompanying them. I will also streamline Tue, 12 May 2009 20:39:01 GMT yahganlang http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/182 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/182 I think for the sake of readability I'll stop enclosing these when I insert or change them. Where Bridges uses apostrophe (as opposed to stress) I'll use ^, Tue, 12 May 2009 19:40:29 GMT yahganlang http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/181 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waata_chis/message/181 Bridges, Thomas T.B Yahgan Grammar in A.J. Ellis' Phonetic System begun May 22, 1866 and completed never Preface This work does not pretend to be