Re: Central Pomo (was: Re: The new Rinya thread)

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Daniel Andreasson wrote:

> Tal skrev:
>
> > > As for now, I'm thinking of stealing large portions of the
> > > Central and Eastern Pomo active system. Or at least that's
> > > where I'd mostly get the ideas from.
>
> > Pomo? Why do I associate that with Italian? How is that system
> > then?
>
> _Pomo_ not _Como_... :p
>
> Seriously. I suppose I should've explained what Pomo is. It's
> a group of Native American languages belonging to the Caddoan
> language family and it's spoken in south western USA.
Uh, no. Pomoan is a branch of Northern Hokan, native to what is now
California. Caddoan languages are indigenous to the Great Plains and
include languages such as Arikara, Pawnee, and Wichita.

Dirk

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