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Re: CHAT: "boocoo"

From:Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 18:35
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:00:00PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Oh! So "Tsalagi" is the word "Cherokee" mapped into the Cherokee sound > system, which doesn't have /r\/ (or /S/ or /k/, apparently), and > we got "Cherokee" from the Creek (while getting "Creek" from someone > else. Lovely.) So does anyone know how close "Cherokee" is or isn't > to the original Creek word?
Don't know that one, sorry :) I'm concentrating on Iroquoian languages. Amanda