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From: alderson@netcom11.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: American Indian Languages - Apache and/or Iriquois
In-Reply-To: Peter & Megan Rodger's message of Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:06:50 +1100
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In article <327DC03A.7992@cynergy.com.au> Peter & Megan Rodger
<slothman@cynergy.com.au> writes:

>I'm looking for any information about the Apache and Iriquois American Indian
>languages which may be available on the web.

You would do better to search on the Iroquoian languages individually:  Mohawk,
Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga, and Tuscarora (the 6 members of the Iroquois
Confederacy, a *political*, not a *linguistic*, union), and Cherokee and Huron.

Similarly, there is no single Apache language.  There are a number of Apache
languages spoken in the Rio Grande valley and westwards into Arizona, among
them Chiricahua, Jicarilla, and Kiowa Apache (this last not to be confused with
Kiowa, a Uto-Aztecan language).  These are all southern Athapaskan languages,
closely related to Navajo, and as a group more distantly related to Chipewyan
and languages of Oregon and Washington.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
