Russian influence on NW languages

[David Robertson]

Klahowyam,

This is of course a separate issue from Russian documentation of NW
languages, but a brief note may interest you:

I understand that Pomo, or another native language of California Indians
who had contact with the Russian traders, to this day has at least one
loan word from Russian.  It's something like pnixa, it means "book", and
comes from the Russian "kniga".

Cheer,
Dave

...............................................................................
  To learn about subscribing to the SALISHAN or CHINOOK jargon discussion
   groups, just reply to this  message.  Support Native language studies!
*******************************************************************************