biloxi update

"Alfred W. Tüting" ti at fa-kuan.muc.de
Tue Oct 12 16:49:40 UTC 2004


 > I saw in another email that it's suggested that knowledge of
Muskogean helps with Biloxi.  But Muskogean of course is a different
family.  Is this because of close proximity and influence, such as the
case with Latin Rumanian and its Baltic/Slavic influences due its closer
geographic proximity to these non-Latin languages?<<


Baltic/Slavic influences?? Would you plz enlighten me about the Baltic
influence since I only know about the vast influence of Slavic (among
others)?
Romanian is widely influenced by
Slavic (e.g. dragoste, duh, vinovat/nevinovat, sticlã, nevastã)
Turkish (e.g. tutun, bucluc, rahat, musafir, ciorap, geamantan, halat)
German (e.g. s,naidãr, s,rub, chelnãr, grãdinã, cartof, granit,ã)
Hungarian (e.g. pahar, hotãrit(?), vamã, porunci, crãciun)
French (e.g. etaj,  butoi)
etc.

BTW, the Siouan archive is still unaccessible (tried it from several
links and with three different browsers). I don't think that a firewall
or the like can be the culprit. It looks like smth is wrong with the
server there.

Alfred



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