Today's word of the day (or thereabouts)IS the Yahgan word for "day/dia", that is, moala, or mola in many of Bridges' earlier writings. Stress is on the o, and...
Dear colleagues of waata chis: Estimados colegas de waata chis: In a Yahgan-Alakalufan comparison, Yahgan shoala "light, torch, flambeux", "to be alight", etc....
Hi folks. A couple of days ago Danilo Vilicic asked me if the list was still operating. So, here I am to say that it is. I was scheduled to give a poster...
Hi, I'm very glad the list is still working, I found in the wikikepia (free encyclopedia on the net) the following article about the yahgan language,...
Thanks Danilo- something to think about. I went to the link. Doesn't look like they worked too hard on researching the topic, though, does it? Most of the...
Hi all, The section about the language itself is too poor, it lacks more information on grammar, alphabet is O.K. according to Aguilera's works. In my opinion,...
buen día jess tauber. he visto algunas de sus página, entendiendo no mucho, pero algo. sin embargo este correo es para dar la mala noticia, de que ayer la...
Mis más sinceras condolencias ante la perdida de doña Ermelinda. Eso nos deja ahora con sólo una hablante de la lengua. Debemos doblar nuestros esfuerzos...
There's is another article, in www.proel.org/mundo.html (you must search southamerica, then yámana), about yahgan language. This is a bit more complete, as it...
Historia La lengua yámana (tekeenika, yahgan, yapoo) es la lengua más austral del mundo. De las denominaciones atribuidas a sus hablantes, la más conocida...
buen día danilo. que buen artículo, de dónde lo obtuviste. te cuento, por estos momentos me encuentro escribiendo una serie de capìtulos, de un libro...
Hello, all. I was very shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Ermelinda Acun~a. This has changed radically any possibilities of working together on a...
As per Danilo's suggestion, I have undertaken to help fill in some of the blanks on the Yahgan language section of the Wikipedia. The first section was a start...
Hello, folks. I spent the better part of the afternoon at my local alma mater digitally scanning more Yahgan documents. Will do more tomorrow weather...
The last batch goes to the scanner this week. At least until more materials get worked up. What a load of work! Well at least its mostly done, and hopefully...
While waiting for my local college to open again after the holiday hiatus to resume scanning I worked on a couple of things that might be of interest. The...
So I decided to take a much closer look at the meanings of the individual case suffixes. What I am finding is that sometimes what is written about the system...
I just ran across this today- transcripts of a meeting of 26 August 2003 which involve testimony by Cristina Calderon, Cristina Zarraga, and Jacinthe Messier,...
Estimada Cristina, Soy una investigadora/escritora de los EEUU, pero ya trabajo en Buenos Aires. Estoy trabajando con un proyecto documental, La Escuela...
buen día jennifer. no habrá inconveniente en hablar imagino yo con mi abuela, al paso por estas tierras. precisamente y hablando sobre la lengua, nos ...
From the US Embassy (Chile) pages (go to URL for photos also). (http://www.usembassy.cl/OpenNews/asp/pagDefault.asp?argInstanciaId=2&argNoticiaId=2626): ...
I hate to be a pest- but what is the point of having a discussion if nobody tells you their news- whether it is about the donation of a computer or workshops...
What is the etymology of Ushuaia? This is a bit obvious, but using Bridges' dictionary, 'ush' is a deictic meaning "up", 'waia' is "bay". So, something like...
Ushsha itself may be composite. First ush- is a very common lexical formant apparently meaning 'back, behind' often associated with body parts and processes....
All these years looking at vocabulary and only NOW I started to notice that a good number of terms whose root forms end in -i seem to have a diminutive sense...
The mini-study continues apace. I've done now all verb root forms ending in -i and -u:, and am working now on -a forms. Here's what I've found- and remember...
While compiling grammar resources from the 1877-9 dictionary manuscripts I noticed something that I hadn't before (this despite the fact that I've gone past it...
This was taken from LINGUIST list 17.2544 (original page: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2644.html). I thought it might be of interest- Jess Tauber ...
From David Timpe to Waata Chis: News in the popular media (AP) on the Yamana's neighbors. Might be a bit better than the piece on language extinction in the...
