Talk:Proto-Siouan language

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Short description: Common ancestor of the Siouan languages

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... that some evidence for when Proto-Siouan was spoken comes from the archeological record of a gourd?

Source: "Cucurbita pepo clearly preceded edible squashes in the archaeological record by many centuries and was probably native to Eastern North America, so the most widespread of the Siouan cucurbit terms undoubtedly refers to them." (Rankin, p. 267)

ALT1: ... that while most Siouan languages are spoken in the Great Plains, their reconstructed ancestor was probably spoken in the Ohio River Valley? Source: "The overlap of linguistic, anthropological, and historical data together support the idea that the majority of all Siouan-Catawban peoples resided in or around the Ohio River Valley by the seventeenth century, only to join numerous other tribes in flight before the aggression of the Haudenosaunee." (Kasak, p. 11)
ALT2: ... that the reconstructed ancestral language of the Siouan languages had two sounds which linguists call "funny w" and "funny r"? Source: "A few comments regarding the reconstructed Proto-Siouan phonemes are in order. First, the symbols /W/ and /R/ are reconstructed consonantal sounds which are probably similar to /w/ and /r/ but which show different reflexes in the modern Siouan languages. In the literature sometimes these are referred to as 'funny w' and 'funny r' [...]"
ALT3: ... that in the Proto-Siouan language, the fricatives of certain words could be swapped out with others to express a change in intensity? Source: "Lakota provides robust examples of this sound symbolic gradation, especially in its stative verb stems and many root concepts. This is illustrated in the stem sets in (3), where we see that either the semantic scale or the intensity of a concept shifts as the fricative sound(s) in the stem or root are moved from front to back places of articulation in the vocal tract. [...] Matthews (1970), discussing the status and phonology of Proto-Siouan continuants, states that this type of sound symbolism is abundant in the vocabulary of Siouan languages, and while it is not a productive process now in many of the languages (except perhaps in the Dakotan sub-branch of MVS), the fact that so many share this type of sound symbolism is evidence of an ancient origin." (p. 1469)
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