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...
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Gonzalo V€ ¦ásquez S€...
gvasquez95
Jul 9, 2007 12:10 am
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...
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davidetamara
Oct 19, 2007 7:23 pm
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 ...
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yahganlang
Jul 6, 2008 6:30 am
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...
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yahganlang
Jul 7, 2008 8:13 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Jul 11, 2008 12:47 am
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,...
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Danilo Vilicic
danivilicic
Jul 14, 2008 10:47 pm
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:...
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yahganlang
Jul 24, 2008 3:54 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Jul 28, 2008 1:00 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Aug 6, 2008 11:48 am
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...
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yahganlang
Sep 24, 2008 9:31 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Sep 24, 2008 9:36 pm
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) ...
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yahganlang
Sep 24, 2008 11:01 pm
Yahgan: tvkvpi 'the large, black conger eel' Salish: *kwup-ya? 'elder' Bella Coola kukwpi 'grandfather kuukwpi 'great-grandfather' Comox kwupa?...
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yahganlang
Sep 24, 2008 11:01 pm
Yahgan: hingun 'a sober, sensible and faithful wife or woman' Proto-Interior Salishan: *nvXW 'female' Lillooet nuXWa?/nvn'XWa? '(female) sweetheart' ...
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yahganlang
Sep 30, 2008 9:49 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Oct 16, 2008 8:47 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Nov 10, 2008 3:44 pm
Since my last posting I've been reconstructing, from original materials and the published Hestermann/Gusinde version of the dictionary, the final 10 percent...
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yahganlang
Nov 10, 2008 3:44 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Nov 10, 2008 3:44 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Dec 2, 2008 4:46 am
A while ago I created (yet) another discussion at Yahoo specifically for Yahgan language resources (just replace waata_chis with yaruchis, with no spaces). ...
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yahganlang
Dec 10, 2008 4:09 pm
from Yahoo news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081210/sc_nm/us_chile_tribe Patagonia Indian tribe faces extinction By Simon Gardner PUERTO EDEN, Chile (Reuters)...
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yahganlang
Feb 14, 2009 7:06 am
Two days ago was the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, father of evolution by natural selection. Here in the US we also celebrate Abraham Lincoln, who freed...
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Guillaume Leduey
eyak_and_yah...
Mar 3, 2009 9:16 pm
Hi, There are lots of words for "beach" in Yahgan. Here are some I found on the web: Duan (stony beach); lahpicun (muddy beach); asetan (sandy beach); wahan ...
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Danilo Vilicic
danivilicic
Mar 9, 2009 11:03 pm
Hi! I found this in a chilean page about indigenous languages, there is material about yahgan, with sound files: http://www.lenguasindigenas.cl/index.php?id=54...
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wdereuse
Apr 18, 2009 11:25 am
Hi all: At the risk of sounding too formal, I'll just post here a little biosketch. It will give you an idea of who I am, and what I am interested in. Willem...
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yahganlang
Apr 29, 2009 11:13 pm
Another study claiming common descent for most Native Americans. Jess Tauber phonosemantics@......
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yahganlang
May 1, 2009 7:59 pm
I don't remember whether I've posted this one already. Kuipers' Proto-Salish on pg. 89 of the etymological dictionary has: *q'ap'XW/xw (hazel)nut Comox...
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Roberto Bahamonde
lin_linao
May 2, 2009 3:15 am
Jess: Did you post some link? I can't see anything. There is a recent paper about unique genetical origin for Native American peoples. Bye. Roberto....
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yahganlang
May 2, 2009 3:19 am
Oops- sorry about that. It came through, though, on another post to a different list. Here it is again. ...
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David Timpe
dptimpe
May 3, 2009 9:07 pm
The article says they sampled populations from Alaska to the Southern tip of Chile, but the map doesn't give that impression. Nothing closer to Chile than...
