Haida related to Miwok, not Na-Dene?

[Geoffrey Caveney]

In my comparison of Haida and Proto-Miwok, I compare a form meaning 'liver'
to another form meaning 'liver', a form meaning 'bone' to another form
meaning 'bone', 'my' to 'I', 'black' to 'black', 'night' to 'night', 'one'
to 'one', etc. Also, all of the forms I compare have closely matching
initial and final consonants.

In your comparison of Uralic and Costanoan, you compare a form meaning
'water' to a form meaning 'to spit', a form meaning 'to eat' to a form
meaning 'soup', a form meaning 'tongue' to a form meaning 'taste, smell', a
form meaning 'cloud' to a form meaning 'dew', a form meaning 'green' to a
form meaning 'yellow', and so on. You also compare forms with such
discrepant consonants as *sai *and *ange*, *lawan *and *njeHl*, *qapam *and
*kadwa*, *lalak *and *kark*, and so on.

I would rather have a dozen solid comparisons than 100 shaky comparisons.

Geoffrey Caveney


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Arnaud <fournet.arnaud at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Le 25/07/2013 13:00, Ryan Denzer-King a écrit :
>
>  The evidence I am finding shows substantially more comparisons between
>> Haida and Miwok than between Haida and Costanoan. My tentative hypothesis
>> right now is that, surprisingly, Miwok and Haida are even more closely
>> related than Miwok and Costanoan are.
>>
>
> Please read this recent paper of mine:
> http://english.fullerton.edu/**publications/cln/**clncurrentissue/Fournet_
> **UralicCostanoan.pdf<http://english.fullerton.edu/publications/cln/clncurrentissue/Fournet_UralicCostanoan.pdf>
>
> Best
>
> A.
>
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