[PW] Re: Inuit for raccoon

[Rboconoresq at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/7/2006 8:17:49 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
sarahz at cals.lib.ar.us writes:

> Does anyone have access to a Gwich'in or Athabascan dictionary?  I'm not
> sure that a dictionary of either of those languages would be any more
> helpful though?
> 


       I don't think there could be an Athabascan dictionary--Athabascan 
being a group of languages, sharing a common origin.  Navajo is an example of an 
Athabascan language.  So is Apache.  But a Navajo cannot understand an Apache.  
It's kind of like Gaelic--Irish is one form of it but but an Irish speaker 
cannot understand a Scotish one.