Re: Migrations and Languages

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 14:16:52 -0600

At 09:25 AM 11/6/98 -0600, Karen G. Jensen wrote:
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>Dear Glenn,
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>Thu, 05 Nov 1998 19:55:10 -0600 you wrote:
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>>Most of the traffic across the Bering Strait seemed to have been a one way
>>traffic, especially after the sea level rose cutting the two continents off.
>
>There were waves of migration, bringing different languages.

There were apparently 3 major waves of immigration to North America. But
the connectivity of languages goes far beyond these different waves. The
connection transcends the continents in some cases.

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>Do you think it's true that the Navajo people migrated from Mongolia across
>and south, some of them turned east and settled in the Arizona area,
>displacing the Anasazi, and the rest continued south, settling in South
>America?

Don't know.
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>I have heard that during World War II when Americans were using Navajo as a
>"secret" language, some South American Indian men recognized it as closely
>related to their language, and both groups remembered the account of the
>separation of the two groups, one continuing south and the other turning
>east.
>
>Any documentation on that?

I have never head that but Native American history and archeology has not
been a focus of mine.

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>Karen
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glenn

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