Re: Polynesian and South American place names

From: Yuri Kuchinsky (yuku_at_trends.ca)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:44:38 -0400

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>
> Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
>
> > > > There may be connections with Finnish and the Pacific region - but the
> > > > wrong end of the Pacific, namely, the Aleut islands.
> > >
> > > Merlijn,
> > >
> > > Why do you think that this should be "the wrong end"?
>
> Merlijn appears to be saying that, from your point of view, North
> European connections with the Aleutian Islands is the wrong end of the
> Pacific, since you're obsessed with connecting everything with Chile,
> the other end of America.

It's still the Pacific rim. We're talking about the maritime
cultures that moved around along the Pacific rim.

> > > The Aleut islands are right next to Alaska, which is where a
> > > lot of Native cultures are found with demonstrated
> > > archaeological and cultural links to the Polynesians.
> > >
> > > > Genetic
> > > > relationships between Uralic and Eskaleut, as well as some
> > > > Paleosiberian languages (Yukaghir, Chukchi) have been proposed, but
> > > > their time-depth stretches historical linguistics to the limits.
> > > >
> > > > M.
> > >
> > > I guess I'll be the first to suggest that the Finnish
> > > language may have some Austronesian elements? <horror!>
>
> Probably not, unfortunately.

Well, I don't insist on this one... I'll give up the First
Prize for this if someone really wants it. :)

> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net

Yuri.

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Toronto

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