Uto-Aztecan and Hebrew

[Olavarria]

Sound Correspondences in Indo-European

Linguists have found that even though sounds change over time, the changes are not haphazard; sounds change in consistent patterns, such that a sound in one language will quite consistently correspond to a particular sound in a related language. For example, the sound correspondences of English in the Indo-European language family include f < *p (i.e., f is from an original p or reconstructed proto-Indo-European *p); th < *t; and h < *k; and all three show a general trend of stops (p, t, k) becoming fricatives (f, th, h):

English Latin

father--> pater

foot--> ped-

three--> tres

thin -->tenuis

hound--> kan-is

heart--> kord-is

hundred--> kentum

Proposed Sound Shifts From Semetic to Uto-Aztecan

Proto-Semitic/

Arabic Hebrew UA

*b b -->*kw/p16

*p p -->*p

*r r -->y/i

*( ( -->w/o/u

*h h -->ho/w/o/u

*) ) -->w/o/u

*s s--> c

*d s -->c

*z s -->c

*t t -->c

*z z -->c

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[nosmelone]

Let me start out by stating that I am in no way any sort of a linquist and have not put much study into Hebrew, Egyptian or Uto-Aztecan. But I would agree with Stubbs article on quite a few things. First being that we seem to still be in our infancy on studying when he called the "other end of the spectrum" meaning the Native American Languages. I'm in the "very early" stages on learning Hopi myself and although Stubbs said it is one of the easier Native American languages to learn...somehow that must not apply to me. I do agree that this will be a slow process of being able to become fully educated in Semetic languages as well Native American languages and should expect massive results immediatly. On that note I do know that Hugh Nibley was able to bring some Egyptian heiroglyphs to some of the traditional Hopi elders in Hotevilla which they did have some sort of an understanding. Although he never went into detail on what parts they got right I found that extremely interesting.

The Hopi language varies in dialect on each Mesa (1,2,3) including the language of Tewa on 1st Mesa as well. I know that Hopi is a dying language although there are efforts to push the learning of the language to the youth it seems that much may be lost already. I just hope that we are not too late.