Salishan and North-Caucasian
Sa[lishan] languages are represented in this paper in the following way (data used in this paper are taken from the appropriate dictionaries or published word lists): Tsamosan [Ts]: Upper Chehalis [UP]. Interior Salish [IS]: Thompson River Salish [Th], Shuswap [Sh], Colville-Okanagan [CO], Moses- Columbian [MC], Spokane [Sp], Montana Salish [MS]. Central Salish [CS]: Lushootseed [Ls] (=Puget), Sechelt [Se], Squamish [Sq]. Bella Coola (Nuxalk) [BC]/[Nu]. I am also using occasionally North Wakashan [NWk] language data as provided by N.Lincoln and J.C.Rath in their North Wakashan Comparative Root List (Ottawa 1980); abbreviations: Haisla = Ha; Heiltsuk = He; Kwakiutl (=Kwakwala) = Kw; Oowekyala = Oo. – Note also: Wakashan = Wk; M = Makah; Nitinat = Ni; Nootka = No. North Caucasian [NC] languages are cited after A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary by S.Nikolaev and S.Starostin (Asterisk Publishers, Moscow 1994) [NCED], and occasionally also after S.St[arostin]’s papers Nostratic and Sino-Cacasian (in Explorations in Language Macrofamilies, Bochum 1989: 42-66) [St. ’89] and On the Hypothesis of a Genetic Connection between the Sino- Tibetan Languages and the Yeniseian and North-Caucasian Languages (in Dene-Sino-Caucasian Languages, ibid. 1991: 12-40) [St. ’91]. – Note relevant abbreviations: North-East Caucasian = NEC = EC; N.-West Caucasian = NWC = WC; Sino-Caucasian = SC; Yeniseian = Yen; Sino- Tibetan = ST; Nostratic = N.
