[Corpora-List] Cree, Ojibwa, Tononac and other AmerIndian languages

[Yuri Tambovtsev]

Dear  Crpora colleagues,
In 1938 a Russian ethnographer and archeologist Prof.Dr. Aleksey P. 
Okladnikov published an article on the rehistory of the Siberian tribes, in 
which he put forward a theory that Neolitic tribes of Siberia crossed the 
Bering ice or earth bridge to Noethern America. In the Americas there 
were found no ape remnants, this is why the origin of man was not 
possible. A.P. Okladnikov believed that the settlement of the Northern 
America had at least two waves in the Paleolitic times. Some linguists 
after that tried to find the similarities between the languages of the tribes 
of Siberia and the Indians of America. I'd like to compare the sound 
chains of the languages of the Siberian aboriginal peoples and the sound 
chains of the languages of the American Indians. I failed to find any data 
on the frequency of occurrence of the speech sounds in the languages of 
American Indians. There were no publications on the frequencies of 
occurrence of speech sounds in the aboriginal Siberian languages either. 
This is why, in 1973 I started the project of counting the frequency of 
occurrence of speech sounds in Siberian languages. Then in 1986 
Prof.Dr. William Cowan of Carleton university (Canada) sent me 
"Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary by Richard A. Rhodes" 
to start the investigation of the frequency of occurrence of speech sound 
in the AmerIndian language of Ojibwa. We have computed several 
AmerIndian languages, among them Cree, Ojibwa, Totonac, etc. Now 
we've got data on the frequency of occurrence of speech sound chains of 
some 30 AmerIndian languages. We are trying to compare their data to 
the other languages of Siberia and the world. The total number of the 
computed languages is 176. We are looking for co-operation with those 
American linguists who would like to compute some more languages of 
the Americas to obtain the frequency of occurrence of speech sounds. 
We'd be thankful to those colleagues who could advise us on where to 
publish the article on the typological closeness (distances) of 
AmerIndian languages. Looking forward to hearing from those who can 
co-operate with us soon to yutamb at hotmail.com Remain yours sincerely 
Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia 

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