Amerindian

ABBA's "Bang-A-Boomerang" is an apt song for my interest in the languages and cultures of indigenous peoples around this globe. I collect research documents about Amerindian, Eskimo, Pacific, Australian Aboriginal, African, and Asian languages and cultures.

Damien, my Polish-descent linguist friend adored native cultures around this world. He liked my invented language Kwaadakw, based on Amerindian languages.

My friend Bratislav believes the Amerindian, Robert Morning Sky, who theorizes that creatures on other worlds will tend to evolve to have humanoid shape, as they approach sentience, be they apelike, lizard-like, insect-like, plant-like, fungus-like, etc.

At the time of first European contact, the Western Hemisphere had about 15-40 million natives with about 1800-2000 different languages. A newer dental morphology term for "Native Indian" or "Amerindian" is "Super-Sinodont." An Eskimo is different from an Amerindian.

I have visited the Tillamook Cheese Factory in Oregon. Like many place names there, it is of Amerindian origin.

Amerindian languages are full of interesting intricacies.

In the 1980s, I visited the Flintstones' Bedrock City in Chilliwack, BC. "Chilliwack" comes from the Amerindian Halq'eméylem word "Ts'elxwéyeqw" meaning "as going as far as you can go upriver."

Lulu Island in ancient times was in the territory of downriver Halkomelem, a Salishan Amerindian language. Much of Lulu Island was mud.

I read the research paper "Sinodonty vs. Sundadonty: issues of source populations and timing in the settlement of the Americas," comparing the dental morphologies of Amerindian and Asian populations.

I read the article "Amerindian Sociocosmologies of Northwestern South America: Some Reflections on the Dead, Metamorphosis, and Religious Specialists."