What is "barred-L"

[Jordan Fink]

I'll have to get back to her about this, but she was implying that the Old
Chinook trade network was linked to the Nahuatl network & the network was
used for mutual benefit of the Aztec and Chinook civilizations.

-j

> Klahawya, Jordan pi kanawi-klaksta,
>
> it's really interesting the fact that many words are very similar in CJ
> and Nahuatl.
> Here are several possibilities:
> - a distant relationship within the hypothetic "Amerind" superphylum
> between Chinookan and Uto-Aztecan; this would give account for instance
> for the pronominal root n- for 1st person sg., m- for 2nd person sg., both
> in Chinook (as well as in other "Penutian" languages, like Sahaptin and
> Wintu) and in Aztecan languages (Nahuatl, Pipil)
> - a less distant relationship within a "(Macro-)Penutian" macrophylum (I
> have seen such taxonomic proposals comprising, beside the language
> families traditionally classified as "Penutian", also Mayan, Mixe-Zoquean,
> Totonacan, Uto-Aztecan, Zunu, Juave and even Mapudungun [Araucan] !!
> - some trade contacts (before or after the arrival of Europeans), leading
> to reciprocal borrowings or borrowings from a common source
> - chance resemblances: Chinook Jargon is full of it, for instance:
> CJ lema/lima "hand" is similar to pan-Austronesian lima "hand; five", but
> comes from French "la main";
> CJ kwinEm "five" is similar to Latin quinque "five" etc;
> Proper Chinook niksht "not" looks very similar to German nicht "not";
> and so on.
>
> Francisc
>
> Jordan Fink <jordan at RISEUP.NET> wrote:
> I feel like the hissing sound IS kind of like "tl"
>
> On another note, a friend of mind who has studied Nahuatl (the widely used
> Aztec trade language) claims that many of the words of Chinook Jargon are
> VERY similar to Nahuatl words.
>
> hey all you linguist out there, does that make any sense?
>
> -jordan
>
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