Sad news from Oakland, New Jersey. Yesterday morning we had a house fire which gutted one of the bedrooms in our house. Unfortunately the room was filled with...
... Oh! How absolutely awful. Glad to hear at least that nobody was hurt. Once you've recovered a bit, ... I'd be willing to help with the digital side of...
My copy of Aert Kuipers' Salish Etymological Dictionary (2002, UMOPL (University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics) was damaged, but not destroyed,...
20 years after the publication of the late Joseph H. Greenberg's 'Language in the Americas' the controversy engendered by his technique of mass comparison and...
Hello, That's a neat idea. Count me in. A suggestion: have you consider using Google Groups instead? They offer more options, in terms of file storage, etc.,...
A Biblioteca Curt Nimuendaju (http://biblio.etnolinguistica.org) é um projeto que tem por objetivo a criação de uma coletânea digital de artigos e livros...
Weeks have gone by and things are starting to settle out here. Much cleaning and boxing of materials that were in other parts of the upper part of the house...
Cleanup and repair work continues unabated here. All the materials that could be salvaged have been separated from others and detritus. I hope to be able to...
Hi there, Here is the all new link you have to go to to get the .pdf file of "A Few Notes On The Structure Of Yahgan" by Thomas Bridges. The old one doesn't...
Hello all. I've spent weeks parsing the Bridges Biblical texts, nearly all done now. While looking at a completely different phenomenon (double object ...
The Yahgan term wvshta:gu:, referring to making, doing, working of any kind, has always been for me of interest in terms of its possible etymology. Yesterday...
Dear fellow members, A few days ago I started a non-profit website project to preserve the Yaghan culture. I have structured it using Wikipedia's Mediawiki...
Estimados amigos, soy un chico italiano, casado con una ecuatoriana, muy interesado en las lenguas y culturas indígenas de las Américas, y hablo un poquito ...
How is everyone doing? After a year away from work on Yahgan I am, as they say, 'back in the saddle'. For the past two months I've been reacquainting myself...
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080707-canada-diamonds.html When I first heard about this hypothesis it made me think that NORTH America might have been...
I just found this- an online version of Lucien Adam's Yahgan grammar: Adam, Lucien. Grammaire de la langue jâgane. Paris : Maisonneuve frères & Ch. Leclerc,...
Thank you very much! I just wanted that work for years! Now I'll be able to read it. Any comments about it? Greetings Danilo Vilicic ... From: yahganlang To:...
Well, apparently what I'm observing in the three biblical texts by Bridges is plain old standard garden variety differential object marking (not to be confused...
I've spent the better part of the week working out the subtle semantics of noun forms with -nch- suffix. Still a bit to go, but I'll try to lay out the basic...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_kaweskar One by one the last culture bearers leave, and often there is little interest by the youngest generations in...
Yahgan ha:laka (from H/G) s.a. Having prongs or teeth, projections or arms as the many branched roots or branches of an old tree, as the limbs of a cuttle...
Yahgan iu:aia a.s. Jealous as a husband or wife. Jealousy. shaiiu:a Envious, invidious, covetous. Jealous, but not as husband. tr.i. To envy, be envious) ...
I've been looking through old materials by Edward Sapir. From his work connecting the Californian languages Wiyot and Yurok (or 'Ritwan' from their terms for...
From Takelma (which Edward Sapir considered Penutian way back when): xda~n 'eel' -xda~- 'paternal uncle' a~ is nasalized a Could this be an old cognate to...
Since my last posting I've been reconstructing, from original materials and the published Hestermann/Gusinde version of the dictionary, the final 10 percent...
I was just re-reading portions of Uttermost Part of the Earth and was interested to be reminded that Thomas Bridges was reported to have been working on the...
Some of you may be familiar with reprints (or if lucky, the original version) of morning and evening prayers in Yahgan (Oracion Matutina Y Vespertina- Colectas...
A while ago I created (yet) another discussion at Yahoo specifically for Yahgan language resources (just replace waata_chis with yaruchis, with no spaces). ...
