[PW] Re: Inuit for raccoon

[Paul Sinasohn]

In Tlingit, Raccoon is s'aq (with an accent grave over the A) 


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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.
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