quinnat: mahsie konaway tillicums

[Mike Cleven]

>
>everyone has been very helpful. thanks lots; our friend is considering
>something for radio-canada on wawa now.
>
>in the meantime, it's quite true what dave says about terms for salmon
>crossing linguistic boundaries. the various coast salish terms for sockeye
>are remarkably similar to the chilcotin, for instance. apart from chinook,
>sockeye, and coho - and even then it can be fuzzy - the common terms for
>salmon have lost the aboriginal antecedents. however, the latin names have
>not: onchorhynchus tschawatcha, o. kisutch, o. keta, o. nerka, etc., all
>derive from the kamchadal language and from the kamchadal terms for the
>same
>salmon - or at least attempts by krashinnikov and walbaum to write the
>kamchadal words in english, anyway.


You mean in Latin, don't you? ;-)

MC
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