Re: The status of the glottal stop in Hebrew

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 02:04:03 -0500, Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> wrote:.
>
> Indeed... are there any Hokan or Penutian languages spoken *outside*
> of California?
>
Well it looks like the range of some Hokan and Penutian languages
extend well outside of California. There's a variety of penutian which
is called "Oregon Penutian". Hokan extends into Mexico, and Penutian
has representatives as far north as Chinook, and as far east as the
Nez Perce

Where I live, it's entirely Penutian (Ohlone - various languages
thereof), and the Esselen have a small range (they speak a Hokan
language.) Interestingly their closest relatives are in Mexico, and
the southern desert of California:


ESSELEN  [ESQ] (USA)
COCHIMÍ  [COJ] (Mexico)
COCOPA  [COC] (Mexico)
KUMIÁI  [DIH] (Mexico)
KILIWA  [KLB] (Mexico)
PAIPAI  [PPI] (Mexico)
MOHAVE  [MOV] (USA)
MARICOPA  [MRC] (USA)
QUECHAN  [YUM] (USA)
HAVASUPAI-WALAPAI-YAVAPAI  [YUF] (USA)




> I think by Algonquian you must mean "Algic", which is the
> ancestor of Wiyot, Yurok, and the entire Algonquian family. In
> fact, I am not aware of any true Algonquian languages spoken in
> California at all.

Yes, well I don't know much about the native languages of California
and their ancestry, so you're right i'm guessing :).


People get this image of Native languages as sounding like either
Sioux or Angonquin, but the languages in California seem to have
simpler phonologies (compared to what i've seen).

For instance, Chumash (Inezeño) has the five "cardinal" vowels" plus
barred i, which is the only slightly tricky vowel for me.

And here's something to bring it back to the discussion on the glottal
stop in Hebrew. Inezeño Chumash has a glottal stop after a consonant.
However they are pronounced at the same time (or at least very closely
in sequence.) It can also show up right before a consonant as well.

The only other tricky thing for me with Chumash is to differentiate
between aspirated and non aspirated consonants.

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