This website contains the full text of John Dunn's paper Proto-Tsimshian: A New World Indo-European Language as presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (San Francisco, January 2002).

In addition, the website contains detailed lexical information regarding all the systematic relationships and other recurrent relationships between proto-, pre-Indo-European (PIE, pre-PIE) and proto-Tsimshian (TS). Additional lexical information will be added to this website; if you would like to be placed on a mailing list so that you can be notified when the contents of this site are updated, please send an email to John A. Dunn (jadunn@ou.edu), Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Modern Languages, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma.

For a number of technical reasons, the materials contained in this website are all jpeg images scanned from printed pages; many of these images are actually image maps. In other words, you can click on the specific linguistic correspondence or lexical item in order to access more detailed information. Instructions are provided at the top of each webpage in the site. If you are having trouble accessing the materials on this site, please contact Laura Gibbs (laura-gibbs@ou.edu). Thanks go to David Manning for his assistance in digitizing these materials.

Where to start? Please begin with the discussion contained in the text of Proto-Tsimshian: A New World Indo-European Language. You can then turn to The Table of Systematic Relationships and Table of Other Recurrent Relationships for additional supporting detail regarding individual correspondences and specific lexical items.