The Tarascan Empire

herm....not to burts your bubble but Erendira Ikikunari hasnt been proved to actually be a noble. We do know she existed out of Spanish cronicles, but her story has been flourished with mythical qualities for centuries, just like any legend actually.

People in Michoacan refer to Erendira's leyend very proudly...but I think its actually really far fetched that somehow her direct decendants (if any) ended up in the US.  no offense but it sound more like immigrants very proud of their roots made that up.

Originally posted by Paul The Tarascans are a mysterious people. Linguistically the Tarascan language comes from the same group as Quechua the tongue of the Inca. They also appear to have had trade links with Andean people.

Tarascan really had strong trade links with Aymara and Quechua.

They – specially Aymara - have a lot of cognates with Tarascan. I'll take only three examples to wake up you.

English: Hill

Finnish: Kumpu

Tarascan: Kumpu

Quechuan/Bolivia: qhompo

English: To extinct a fire

Finnish: Sammuttaa tuli vedellä (tukahduttaa)

Lupacan: Tukhutha (Ludovico Bertonio 1612)

Tarascan: tuku- (‘cesar’, ‘poner fin’)

Quechuan: tuku- (‘finalizar’, ‘dar fin’ (v. t.)); ‘terminar’,

‘acabarse’ (v. i.); tuku-q (‘que termina’, ‘final’);

Bolivia: tuku- ‘finalizar’, ‘dar fin’ (v. t.); ‘terminar’, ‘acabarse

English: Gorge, ravine, chasm, cleft

Finnish: Kuru

Estonian: Kuru

Lupacan/Aymara: Kuru

Saami (North Europe/Lapland): Gurra

Sweden: Skuru

Spanish: Tronchado

Tarascan: kuru (‘torcido’)

Quechuan: Kuru  

Of course there are common words because:

Re: ”Comparing Macro-Altaic and Native American languages: What Can WALS Tell Us?”

(Presentation at a meeting on Altaic and Native American languages, Seoul, Oct. 28, 2006)

 

Søren Wichmann

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Leiden University

 

in collaboration with

Eric W. Holman

University of California, Los Angeles

Ranking of similarity of the world’s language families to Macro-Altaic:

Dravidian	34.8
Quechuan	29.5
Yukaghir	27.4
Uralic	24.1
Barbacoan	22.9
Wappo-Yukian	22.8
Huitotoan	22.6
Zuni	21.9
Tarascan	21.5
Aymaran	20.3