Re: [tied] Re: Inuit

>From: H�kan Lindgren <h5@...>
>Reply-To: cybalist@egroups.com
>To: "Cybalist" <cybalist@egroups.com>
>Subject: [tied] Re: Inuit
>Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:06:29 +0200
>
>Thanks for the links, Glen! I've visited them all. Those other languages
>(Abkhaz & Co.) look interesting as well.

Abkhaz is a NorthWest Caucasian language. Very simple phonology compared to
their neighbours (the NorthEast Caucasian languages: Nakh, Lezgian, etc).

>So you're a Canucklehead? Well, that explains some things.... :o)

Heeey, what's that supposed to mean? :)

>I know there are Eskimos in Canada, Alaska etc.

Yes, the Inupiaq... hehe...

> It also has nominal
> declension galore
> - - -
> inummik "person" (accusative)
>True... but there's no accusative among the eight cases of (Greenland)
>Inuit. -mik looks like the modalis case.

Really? Hmmm. I believe I goofed on the "relational" case, btw. I think the
proper form is /inuup/ with lengthened vowel. Have to check my resources
again.

I've been examining EskimoAleut as of late and noticed just recently
actually that Eskimo languages like to add vowels to terminating Aleutian
nasals:

Aleut Inuktitut
who? ki^n kina
1ps -ng -nga

Frightening, n'est-ce pas? I also found out that Steppe *ki-, *k:i- and
*gi-, after merging to *ki in Boreal, are palatalized to EskAleut *ci- and
that Boreal might have preserved medial laryngeals afterall... but I
digress. More later, teehee :)

- gLeN

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