Cubanascnan

[J H]

The original location of the Uto-Aztecan languages was
the US-Mexico border area.  The Mexica and other
Nahuatl-speaking peoples even remembered, when they
were were honest, about how their ancestors had been
desert nomads out of the north.

Jess Harvey


--- Michael Mccafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu> wrote:
> Maybe Dave was referring to its more original
> location. :)
>
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, John Sullivan wrote:
>
> > Just an observation. I think Nahuatl is based in
> many more places than just
> > the central highlands. The fifty-plus native
> speakers of nahuatl from the
> > Huasteca who are currently persuing their
> university studies in Zacatecas
> > would certainly be quick to point this out.
> >     John Sullivan
> >     Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
> >
> > on 7/5/00 8:19 AM, David L. Frye at
> dfrye at umich.edu wrote:
> >
> > > 1. No, there is no relation between the
> (extinct) Taino language of Cuba
> > > and Nahuatl. Most linguistic reconstructions
> have Taino languages coming
> > > from South America into the Caribbean, not from
> Middle America. Even if
> > > there were relationships between any
> Mesoamerican language and Taino, it
> > > would much more likely be with Maya (since Maya
> speakers were the
> > > sea-faring ones -- Nahuatl was based in the
> central highlands, far from
> > > the sea). There is the one example of "hurakan,"
> the word for hurricane in
> > > both Yucatec Maya and Taino.
> > >
> > > 2. Isn't it Cubanacan, not Cubanascnan? I have
> never heard the latter. You
> > > see the form Cubanacan all over Cuba.
> > >
> > > 3. A good place to start would be a book about
> the Taino, such as Irving
> > > Rouse's.
> > >
> > > David Frye, University of Michigan
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> Michael McCafferty
> 307 Memorial Hall
> Indiana University
> Bloomington, Indiana
> 47405
> mmccaffe at indiana.edu
>
>
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>               -Chico Marx
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