Brian Stubbs Uto-Aztecan website

[livy111us]

Brian Stubbs, the well-known linguist who has found native American Uto-Aztecan languages to be filled with Hebrew and Egyptian, has just started a website on the Uto-Aztecan language.

http://uto-aztecan.org/uanist/

You can see some of his Hebrew and Egyptian findings from this past FAIR conference lecture:

[Stargazer]

This seems to have gotten neglected. Let me bring it back into the limelight...

[Olavarria]

Nice. Brians work is very interesting and well documented. I just don't see how it(UA and Hebrew) fits with the LGT(Tehuantepec) theory. Doesn't mean he's wrong. Just sayin.

[cdowis]

Nice. Brians work is very interesting and well documented. I just don't see how it(UA and Hebrew) fits with the LGT(Tehuantepec) theory. Doesn't mean he's wrong. Just sayin.

Especially since the BOM explicitly tells us that their venacular was not Hebrew.

[poulsenll]

Nice. Brians work is very interesting and well documented. I just don't see how it(UA and Hebrew) fits with the LGT(Tehuantepec) theory. Doesn't mean he's wrong. Just sayin.

Pedro

There is some evidence that Nahuatl may have been spoken in Mesoamerica at a much earlier date than previously thought. The time depth for Nahuatl based on linguistic analysis goes back to before 2000 BC. Taube has cited evidence that proposes it as a possible candidate for the language if Teotihuacan, If so this would fit the BofM time frame. Linguistic analysis proposes three major languages, all contemporary, borrowing from each other. These are pre Olmec pre Maya and pre Nahuatl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages Mayan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixe-Zoque_languages Olmec

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=MX All Mesoamerican language groups.

Based on the use of /r/ and /l/ for spelling of names and locations in Ether, Nahuatl is one that fits. However, Quiche, a Mayan dialect also uses both /r/ ad /l/. As yet I have not been able to eliminate any of the major ancient languages on the basis of the use of /r/ and /l/ so Stubb's studies would add support for Nahuatl. The caveat is that a personal communication from a Mesoamerican linguist here at UT proposes that many of the Mesoamerican languages have borrowed words with Hebrew and Egyptian roots. He concludes that they are borrowed because they have no linguistic relationship with the rest of the language but do have a relationship with Hebrew or Egyptian.

Larry P

[poulsenll]

Especially since the BOM explicitly tells us that their venacular was not Hebrew.

Even if the vernacular was not Hebrew, it is possible that Hebrew words would have been used in the vernacular when no local word with the same meaning was available. This is why borrowing between languages occurs.

Larry P

[Olavarria]

Even if the vernacular was not Hebrew, it is possible that Hebrew words would have been used in the vernacular when no local word with the same meaning was available. This is why borrowing between languages occurs.

Larry P

Hmm, like Yiddish or Ladino?

[Olavarria]

Though it is too early to say definitively, the above tribal names (e.g., nevome < *nepima) and several other factors suggest a possibility worth considering: could the UA peoples be in part surviving Nephite or Mulekite populations in the land northward or in northern extensions of the land northward, since the UA tribes form a fairly contiguous chain from Mexico City northward up through western Mexico to the US Southwest? Of course, few, if any, UA areas would be the areas that the Book of Mormon authors referred to as having "large bodies of water and many rivers" and "houses of cement" (Helaman 3:3