shuamort said:Well, we have over 800 indigenous languages in this broad land. How many did you say Scotland has again?
mikeey said:were did u AMERICANs get your Language from, have u not got a language
of your own like us SCOTS,just second hand stuff well well.We have Gaelic
in the highlands of Scotland,is it not about time u did something about that.
what do u say second hand rose haha.
mikeey
Aryan Imperium said:Correct, INDIGENOUS which means that unless you are a Red Indian they have nothing whatsoever to do with you.
I pity the Indians and what has happened to their land.You colonialists have turned it into a human dumping ground. A country founded on genocide.
As I understand it, the Irish settled Scotland. Isn't that how the Scots got their name? for the Scott families of Ireland that settled there, and subsequently brought THEIR Gaelic language?mikeey said:were did u AMERICANs get your Language from, have u not got a language
of your own like us SCOTS,just second hand stuff well well.We have Gaelic
in the highlands of Scotland,is it not about time u did something about that.
what do u say second hand rose haha.
mikeey
I too see a problem with his post. It's rather racist.By saying "You" you seem to mean that because I am an American, that my family line had something to do with the extermination of the Natives. What if I told you that you're wrong, and my family came here a generation ago? Am I still plauged with the guilt of doing such acts?
that was almost perfect. i'm not sure it was completely genocide, although a lot of tribes were lost. but then again, even the Native Americans are not native to american at all, but migrated from russia via the berring strait.Aryan Imperium said:Correct, INDIGENOUS which means that unless you are a Red Indian they have nothing whatsoever to do with you.
I pity the Indians and what has happened to their land.You colonialists have turned it into a human dumping ground. A country founded on genocide.
t125eagle said:even the Native Americans are not native to american at all, but migrated from russia via the berring strait.
I have heard this a lot and I'd like to know where i can find something reliable about this theory. I am interested in ti from a linguistic point of view. Are "Amer-Indian languages related at all to any of the languages found in North Eastern Russia or Manchuria?
Inuyasha said:I have heard this a lot and I'd like to know where i can find something reliable about this theory. I am interested in ti from a linguistic point of view. Are "Amer-Indian languages related at all to any of the languages found in North Eastern Russia or Manchuria?
Here's a good website which talks about the inner-connections of the languages.Inuyasha said:I have heard this a lot and I'd like to know where i can find something reliable about this theory. I am interested in ti from a linguistic point of view. Are "Amer-Indian languages related at all to any of the languages found in North Eastern Russia or Manchuria?
Inuyasha said:Very interesting site. I am also googeling around to see about different comparitive¡ grammars but haven't found much so far.
Thanks Knight.
Here are a couple of observations of my own for what ever they are worth.
The northern people, the Eskimos or Inuit look very Asian and that is true all across the North even in Greenland and Norway. How about that girl from Iceland? Bjork. But the Amer-Indian Native American looks much less Asian. The facial features are different. Bur as you go south into Mexico and Central America they take on a more pronounced Asian look like the Miskito people of Nicaragua. Then there are people in South America who look very Polynesian. That is often explained by the Pacific Islanders "immigrating" across the ocean to Easter Island and the Galapagos. The theory is 90% convincing.
One more thing i noticed that the Nisei (second generation in the US) Japanese and the Amer-Indians of North America have a similar accent and speech patterns. I wonder then what that means?
Asia is generally accepted as the original home of the Native Americans, although linguistic investigations have not yet established any definite link between the Native American languages and those spoken in Asia or elsewhere in the Eastern Hemisphere. Some scholars postulate a connection between the Eskimo-Aleut family and several other families or subfamilies (among them Altaic, Paleosiberian, Finno-Ugric, and Sino-Tibetan). Others see a relationship between members of the Nadene stock (to which Navajo and Apache belong) and Sino-Tibetan, to which Chinese belongs; however, such theories remain unproved.
UtahBill said:Back to the original question, a show called "The Story of English" was on TV a few years back, and there is a book out by the same title. Very informative about how English came about, and how the variations of it came about as well.
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