Morris Swadesh, “Internal Relationships in Salish”, International Journal of American Linguistics, year 1950, volume #16, pages 157-167.

 

 

 

 

Morris Swadesh, “The Origin and Diversification of Language”, 1968, PART TWO (II) was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Here I present: Morris Swadesh’, “Salish Internal Relationships”, International Journal of American Linguistics, year 1950, volume #16, pages 157-167.

The map BELOW shows where the Salish  family  (or called Salishan) is located in North America.  This is a family of languages of the Pacific-Northwest. The individual languages of the Salish family are shown BENEATH in a map.

 

The individual languages of the Salish family are in alphabetical order BELOW.

B.	Bella Coola
C.	Coeur d’Alene
	Columbia-Moses
	Colville-Okanagan
	Comox
	Cowlitz
H.	Halkomelem
K.	Klallam
L.	Lillooet
	Lower Chehalis
	Lushootseed
M.	Montana Salish
N.	Nooksack
	Northern Straits
P.	Pentlatch
Q.	Quinault
S.	Sechelt
	Shuswap
	Squamish
T.	Thompson River Salish
	Tillamook
	Twana
U.	Upper Chehalis

Here I presented: Morris Swadesh, “Salish Internal Relationships”, International Journal of American Linguistics, year 1950, volume #16, pages 157-167.

SUMMARY.

The Salish language family are languages of the Pacific Northwest in North America.  The locality is British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.

A cladogram is a diagram representing a tree.  This diagrammatic representation is frequently used in Biochemistry’ and Linguistics.  Biochemistry’ uses DNA to construct the cladogram (shown BELOW).  The branches of the cladogram are an evolutionary tree..

Swadesh proved that lexicons of all language in linguistics, obey the equation BELOW.  This exponential decay  constant ( λ , lambda ) is equal to 19% vocabulary decay per millennium.

 

This equation is called the Swadesh Glottochronology Formula.