ELL: American Indian Languages Project

[Peter_Constable at SIL.ORG]

Eugene:

I'm sorry, I can't point you to translators, but I would like to point out
a fundamental problem with your list:

>1 Apache      Arizona/US
>2 Cakchiquel  Mexiko
>3 Chickasaw   Oklahoma/US
>4 Choctaw     Oklahoma/US
>5 Cree        Canada
>6 Creek       Montana/US
>7 Crow        Canada
>8 Dakota/Sioux     North Dakota/US
>9 Keresan     Arizona/US
>10 Naskapi    Canada
>11 Navajo     New Mexico/Utah
>12 Ojibwa     Montana/US
>13 Quiché     Mexiko
>14 Yucatec    Mexiko
>15 Yupik/Eskimo    Alaska
>16 Zapotec    Mexiko
>17 Zuni       Arizona/US

Several of these refer to more than one language. This is true at least of
Apache, Cakchiquel, Cree, Ojibwa, Quiche, Yupik/Eskimo, and especially
Zapotec. You probably want to at least decide which specific varieties for
each of these you're interested in, or reconsider whether to include them
in your list.

By the way, Cakchiquel and Quiche languages are spoken in Guatemala, not
Mexico, and Ojibwa languages are spoken in Ontario and the neighbouring
states of the US (though they typically go by the name "Chippewa" in the
US), not in Montana.

For further information, go to http://www.sil.org/ethnologue

I hope this info is useful.


- Peter


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