Talk:Numic languages

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[edit] Kawaiisu not Numic?

The article on the Kawaiisu seems to state that they were Uto-Aztecan speakers but not Numic speakers. --Riction 08:29, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Kawaiisu doesn't have a reference for that statement, while both Ethnologue and Project Rosetta list Kawaiisu as a Southern Numic language. I'm inclined to leave it. 195.171.182.14 16:26, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Kawaiisu is absolutely, positively a Southern Numic language. No Uto-Aztecanist or Numicist will challenge that statement. I'm the authority on Numic languages, but if you need a reference you can look at Maurice L. Zigmond, Curtis G. Booth, & Pamela Munro. 1991. Kawaiisu, A Grammar and Dictionary with Texts. Ed. Pamela Munro. University of California Publications in Linguistics Volume 119. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. (Taivo (talk) 01:25, 5 February 2008 (UTC))

[edit] NOT EVERY LINK IS A GOOD ONE

The references to Chemehuevi, Southern Paiute, and Ute should NOT be liked to the articles by those names. These are names of dialects in this article and do not refer to anthropological groupings. The articles that these names were linked to are not appropriate for a linguistic link and I'm removing the links as irrelevant. All other links on this page are to "language" pages and that is the way it should stay. (Taivo (talk) 20:22, 6 February 2008 (UTC))