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...
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yahganlang
May 3, 2009 9:22 pm
Maybe the more southerly American samples used imaginary numbers :-} Seriously, though, I post these things, not endorse them, given they may be of some...
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yahganlang
May 12, 2009 11:11 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ES&hl=es&v=a7RPEOaSuyE&feature=related There seem to be a number of potentially useful video shorts on these pages. In any case...
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yahganlang
May 12, 2009 7:39 pm
I'm going to start posting up materials from Thomas Bridges' grammar manuscript found in the US Library of Congress. Posts will be in the spelling system I've...
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yahganlang
May 12, 2009 7:40 pm
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...
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yahganlang
May 12, 2009 8:39 pm
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 ^,...
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yahganlang
May 12, 2009 8:39 pm
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...
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yahganlang
May 12, 2009 8:39 pm
((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...
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yahganlang
Jun 17, 2009 4:02 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Jun 23, 2009 5:32 pm
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,...
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David Timpe
dptimpe
Jun 23, 2009 10:28 pm
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...
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yahganlang
Jun 23, 2009 11:00 pm
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...
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 &...
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JessT
yahganlang
Nov 3, 2009 7:04 pm
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...
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Pedro Viegas Barros
peviegas2003
Nov 4, 2009 10:45 pm
Es interesante que parezca haber palabras muy antiguas para 'perro' en lenguas patagonicas.  Asi, para el Proto-Chon se puede reconstruir (Viegas Barros...
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JessT
yahganlang
Nov 5, 2009 12:43 am
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...
