Haida related to Miwok, not Na-Dene?

[Arnaud]

Le 25/07/2013 13:50, Geoffrey Caveney a écrit :
> It is common for phonemes to be borrowed and spread due to areal 
> influence, and I think it is likely that is what happened here: Haida 
> innovated uvulars before Proto-Haida-Miwok unstressed vowels, due to 
> the influence of Tlingit and its substantial inventory of uvular 
> consonants. Before this happened, I propose that the phonological 
> inventory of Proto-Haida-Miwok was substantially similar to that of 
> Proto-Miwok. As for the historical split, my hypothesis is that 
> Proto-Haida-Miwok split not only from Yokuts, but also even from 
> Costanoan, before Haida split from Miwok. At the level of the core 
> lexicon, Proto-Miwok is closer to Haida than it is to Costanoan.
>
> Geoffrey Caveney

For the time being, you have not provided enough words to brush aside 
the idea that these words are just areal loanwords or traveling words.
It's a bit premature to speculate the branchings of three groups with a 
dozen words.
Do you have a 100- or 200- basic word list?

A.