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From: Nancy Whitman <>
Subject: Re: Early Europeans in North America
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:50:58 -0500


Apparently some people have found strong links in the Micmac Indian
language to Phoenician - Not being a linguist, I wouldn't know how
true or untrue this may be. The Micmac certainly lived on the coast
of Northern into Nova Scotia and New Brunswick - and there are some
indications that Phoencian sailors might have gotten this far,
certainly Vikings did (and farther south). I would be interested in
knowing if linquists ever did a complete study on all the coastal
Native American Languages to see what might be found. The same querry
might well be applied to Mississippi Valley and Ohio River Valley
Native Americans (except they have been so removed from that area,
and 'educated to be white' - that most have lost their language. As
athe French in NA didn't do this wholesale killing of all Native Americans
that the english attemempted, and were more apt to leave them in their
traditional areas until recently in Quebec - I don't think the language
would have changed as drastically over - say 800 years or more..in
what became French held territories as in English and later American
territories. Barry Fell - a most debatable scholar - is the one who
claims Micmac-Phoenician language similarities, I suspect his books
can not be either discounted entirely nor accepted entirely; what
he has done is to create questions for more scholarly research!

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>>I think a more interesting focus might be on the linquistic elements
>>in various Native American tribes that may have more in common with
>>early or very ancient European countries than with the languages
>>spoken by their later conquorers.
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>Any such linguistic elements known?
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>Kere Albert Lie
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