si7am & SayEm related? (more)

[Mike Cleven]

At 07:54 PM 11/3/99 -0800, David Robertson wrote:
>3)	The stress pattern is completely distinct in the one of these
>	words from that of the other.  /si7am/ has ultimate stress,
>	/SayEm/ to my knowledge initial.


OK.  I guess I heard (or remembered) it wrong; Halqemeylem can't be that
different from Squamish.

Of course I'm used to the European model of language/geography where
neighbouring languages often share similar words with changed
prononciations and meanings that have remote, sometimes very remote, common
historical roots.  It's sometimes hard to get a grasp on the "separateness"
of the Northwest language community, and how the families of words and
sounds remained apart; and a reminder why the Jargon came along as a common
speech, I suppose.

Mike