[Aztlan] Nick Hopkins Southeastern Native American Languages Report to FAMSI

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Nick Hopkins, our fellow listero who just posted today on the language  
question in our latest and very interesting thread, is an expert in  
Southeastern Native American Languages and you can read his report to  
FAMSI on this topic here;
http://www.famsi.org/research/hopkins/index.html

At the conclusion of the report, there is a .pdf link to the whole  
research study he published.

So I do have a question for Nick. Did these Southeastern languages  
have an earlier antecedent that ancient peoples moving north to south  
into Mexico would have carried with them so that would be the genesis  
of loan words being the same or similar in the Southeast and in the  
Gulf Coast areas of Mesoamerica?

And I have a question for fellow Aztlan moderator, Nahua langauge  
expert, Fritz Schwaller; was the Nahua language group one that  
traveled from earlier times in the north down into Mexico or was the  
migration in the other direction?

Mike Ruggeri