tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 26 22:37:17 2000
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Re: Navajo code-talkers
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Navajo code-talkers
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 01:37:01 EDT
In a message dated 9/25/2000 1:37:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< Okrand wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Mutsun, which is an extinct
Costanoan (a
group of languages - also called Costano, Ohlone, Penutian - spoken in the
San
Francisco Bay area of California) dialect. Here's the bibliographic record
for
his 1977 dissertation for those interested: >>
Thank you for your excellent explanation.
I will add a few I have discerned from other languages, not including
outright puns from English:
'e' (type 5 noun suffix) is pronounced approximately the same way and means
the same thing in Quechua and Mayan. In romanization it is spelled the same
way. It means "as for, referring to."
jay' (intensive) is pronounced jai in Hindi, is always the last word of the
sentence, and is a intensifier for the entire sentence.
Navajo has suffixes (particles) similar to Klingon's type 5 suffixes for
locative, vocative, beneficial. I have not discovered any which come close
to any pronounciation in Klingon.
Very many of the American Indian languages of the western part or the USA
have pronominal verb prefixes (or infixes) which indicate both the subject
and the object, i.e., who is doing the verb to whom. I am not sure enough to
give concrete examples of these. I do know that the Ute and Navajo of
Colorado (where I live) fit into this category. However, I do not claim
proficiency in either language. So, I will leave further discussion to
someone who does know more about Amerind languages.
I will retrieve Marc Okrand's dissertation. It sounds quite interesting.
peHruS