This message is from Diana Rivera.----------Johnnie
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Wed, 19 Jan 94 09:53 EST
"Diana.Rivera" <20676DHR@MSU>
Re: The Routledge Atlas
Johnny-attached is the update on the language atlas I wrote in about last
week.
Diana Rivera
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Re: The Routledge Atlas
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THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS
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President: Nora C. England, University of Iowa
Immediate Past President: Marianne Mithun, UC-Santa Barbara
Vice President: William Bright, Univeristy of Colorado
Secretary-Treasurer: Victor Golla, Humboldt State University
Members-at-Large of the
Executive Committee: Yolanda Lastra, UNAM, Mexico
Sally McLendon, Hunter College, CUNY
MaryAnn Willie, University of New Mexico
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January 19, 1994
Dear Friends,
Thank you for contacting us about the unfortunate errors in the sections
on North American Indian Languages in Routledge's ATLAS OF THE WORLD'S
LANGUAGES (Moseley & Asher, eds., 1994). The most significant mistakes
are on the map plates, rather than in the accompanying text, and involve
the incorrect assignment of languages to language families. The classifi-
catory information shown in the legends is sometimes garbled as well.
In addition, there are frequent inconsistencies from plate to plate.
We attach a short list of the most potentially misleading of these errors.
During the next few weeks we will be compiling a more extensive list of
errata, including mistakes in the text. We will mail this list to you when
it is ready.
Thank you for sharing our concern.
Victor Golla Native American Studies
Secretary-Treasurer & Humboldt State University
Editor, SSILA Newsletter Arcata, California 95521 USA
telephone: (707) 826-4324 or 677-3361
fax: (707) 826-5555
Internet: gollav @ axe.humboldt.edu OR golla @ nic.csu.net
Bitnet: golla @ calstate
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Map 1. Canada and Alaska
1. #21 Aleut is correctly located on the Aleutian Peninsula, but it is also
incorrectly shown to occupy the lower Yukon River in west-central
Alaska. The latter area is actually that of Ingalik Athapaskan (#32).
The number should be corrected and color changed from blue (Eskimo-Aleut)
to orange (Athapaskan-Eyak).
2. #42 Hare is correctly located on the Mackenzie River of northern Canada,
but it is also incorrectly shown on the Yukon River in central Alaska.
The latter territory actually belongs to the Koyukon (#35).
3. #24 Babine is correctly located in north-central British Columbia, but
it is also incorrectly shown in south-central Alaska. The latter is
the territory of the Ahtna (#23).
4. On the language classification chart, #52 Tlingit is indicated to be
a member of the Athapaskan-Eyak family. This is incorrect. Tlingit and
Athapaskan-Eyak are coordinate members of a stock usually called Na-Dene.
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Map 2. Eastern Canada
1. #2 Algonquin and #3 Nipissing are misclassified as "Algic" (as opposed
to Algonquian). They are two of several dialects of a widespread Central
Algonquian language generally known as Ojibwa. Ojibwa also includes Saulteaux,
Mississauga, and Ottawa, as well as numerous local dialects called Ojibwa or
Chippewa.
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Map 3. USA: Eastern Seaboard
1. Error 1 on Map 2 is repeated. Note also that the Nipissing-Ojibwa
boundary is placed differently from the one shown on map 2. Such
inconsistencies from map to map are common.
2. The area on the southern coast of North Carolina south of #45 Catawba
and #17 North Carolina Algonquians is shown as "Unknown". However, on
Map 5, the same area (although, again, the boundaries are inconsistent from
map to map) is shown as Woccon (Siouan). The latter is more correct.
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Map 4. USA: Great Lakes
1. Error 1 on Map 2 is again repeated (but the boundaries are consistent
with those of Map 2).
2. The boundaries shown for the Eastern Siouan languages (#33-35) are quite
different from those shown for the same languages on Map 3.
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Map 5. USA: South-East
1. #5 Biloxi, while correctly located and classified as a Siouan language,
does not belong to Dhegiha.
2. #11 Ofo is not a Muskogean language. It is a Mississippi Valley Siouan
language.
3. #18 Muskogean should be "Muskogee" or "Creek"; Muskogean is the name
of the entire family.
4. There are no Western Muskogean languages called "Western" or "Chakchiuma".
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Map 6. USA: Great Plains
1. #20 Coeur d'Alene is misclassified as Sahaptin (Penutian). It is a
Salishan language.
2. #25 Plains Apache and #21 Kiowa Apache are synonyms for the same
language; the map ascribes separate territories to each name. The Kiowa
(#26), the Kiowa-Tanoan group with whom the Athapaskan Kiowa-Apache lived in
historic times (and from whom they derive their name), are located far from
either "Plains Apache" or "Kiowa Apache" territory.
3. Arapaho, one of the best-known languages of the Plains, is not located
on the map or listed in the legend under Algonquian.
4. #6 is identified as "Panamint". This is incorrect. The territory
shown is that of the Chemehuevi-Southern Paiute-Ute language (Southern
Numic). Panamint is a Central Numic language.
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Map 7. USA: South-West
1. The classification of the Uto-Aztecan languages that is shown,
as well as the placement of these languages on the map, is incorrect in
many important details and should be disregarded.
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Map 8. USA: California
1. As in map 7, the classification and boundaries of several Uto-
Aztecan languages are incorrect. As on Map 6, Southern Numic is
misidentified as "Panamint" (#31). There is also a serious error in the
placement of # 26 Mono (Monache) and #28 Owens Valley Paiute. Many
of the language boundaries in the Great Basin shown on Map 6 differ
considerably from those shown here.
2. #16 Modoc is classified as an isolate. It is in fact a dialect of
Klamath-Modoc, a Plateau Penutian language (see Map 9).
3. Two Yuman languages, Kiliwa and Paipai, are missing. These should
appear in the Baja California area of the map.
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Map 9. North-Western Seaboard
1. #57 Kutenai and #58-59 Waiilatpuan are incorrectly classified as
Uto-Aztecan. Kutenai is an isolate, and Waiilatpuan is generally
classified as Penutian; a Uto-Aztecan connection has never been proposed.
2. #12 Tlingit is not part of Athapaskan-Eyak (see Map 1).
3. #80 Modoc is incorrectly located in the territory of #74 Klamath
(which is not otherwise shown on the map). Modoc, which is merely a
dialect of the Klamath-Modoc language, is misclassified as an isolate
(see also Map 8).
4. #52 Nicola is incorrectly classified as Salishan. It is Athapaskan.
5. One of the Interior Salish languages, Flathead, is not shown.
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