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...
Maybe the more southerly American samples used imaginary numbers :-} Seriously, though, I post these things, not endorse them, given they may be of some...
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...
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...
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 ^,...
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...
((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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 &...
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...
Es interesante que parezca haber palabras muy antiguas para 'perro' en lenguas patagonicas.  Asi, para el Proto-Chon se puede reconstruir (Viegas Barros...
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...
http://www.archive.org/details/aposlndianuztagu00brid I was very surprised to see this today, doing my semi-regular websearches for new materials. If you...
Painted Fish, eaten Fish: Artistic and archaeofaunal representations in Tierra del Fuego, Southern South America Dánae Fiore, Atilio Francisco J. Zangrando...
Apologies for cross-posting. I don't think Pedro et al. will mind me pointing out this new journal here. Congratulations! Willem de Reuse ... Cadernos de...
Hello I came across an interesting collection of dictionaries. Lexical material includes also data from Fuegian languages: - Qawasqar - Selknam - Tehuelche -...
Our very own Yoram Meroz has been awarded an NEH fellowship as an independent, unaffilated scholar to work with Cristina Calderon, as a followup of his earlier...
As some of you may know, the Yahgans had a mythical story of culture-bringer twins, common enough in the Americas- the Yoalvx or iu:alvx Brothers. I was just...
Some of you might find the following amusing: Journal of the Polynesian Society Volume 42, 1933, pp 117-119 YAMANA-ENGLISH: A Dictionary of the Speech of...
