• Proto-Iroquoian is the theoretical proto-language of the Iroquoian languages. Lounsbury (1961) estimated from glottochronology a time depth of 3,500 to...
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    The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants. The Iroquoian...
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  • Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Inuit Proto-Algic Proto-Algonquian Proto-Muskogean Proto-Iroquoian Proto-Uto-Aztecan Proto-Nahuan Proto-Mayan Proto-Mixe–Zoquean...
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  • contrasted them with the neighboring Iroquoian languages. The earliest work on reconstructing the Algonquian proto-language was undertaken by the linguists...
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    century, Robert Latham suggested that the Siouan languages are related to the Caddoan and Iroquoian languages. In 1931, Louis Allen presented the first list...
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    Proto-Iroquoian, and Pawnee (a Caddoan language). Abbreviations N = Proto-Northern Iroquoian Mithun, Marianne. 1999. The languages of native North America. p.305...
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    Florida—who also spoke a language that may have been related to Caddoan. Some linguists believe that the Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouan languages may be connected...
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    homeland of the proto-Iroquoian language resides in Appalachia. Whyte contends, based on linguistic and molecular studies, that proto-Iroquoian speakers participated...
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    Cherokee (category Iroquoian peoples)
    origin of the proto-Iroquoian language was likely the Appalachian region, and the split between Northern and Southern Iroquoian languages began 4,000 years...
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    Iroquois (redirect from Early Iroquoian)
    languages. They are considered Iroquoian in a larger cultural sense, all being descended from the Proto-Iroquoian people and language. Historically, however,...
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    Siouan and Iroquoian speakers in the late 17th century. A vocabulary of the Houma may be another underdocumented Western Muskogean language or a version...
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  • computer-generated dictionary of Proto-Algonquian. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization. Julian, Charles. 2010. A history of the Iroquoian languages. Winnipeg: University...
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    of archaeological cultures considered by archaeologists to be Iroquoian or proto-Iroquoian in character. In the Early Ontario Iroquois stage (likely beginning...
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  • computer-generated dictionary of Proto-Algonquian. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization. Julian, Charles. 2010. A history of the Iroquoian languages. Winnipeg: University...
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    the Caddoan, Iroquoian, Keresan, and Siouan families. This proposal has been rejected by linguists specializing in Native American languages. Murray Gell-Mann...
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    Montagnais) Cree is believed to have begun as a dialect of the Proto-Algonquian language spoken between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago in the original Algonquian...
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    Wichita. Joseph Greenberg grouped Keres with Siouan, Yuchi, Caddoan, and Iroquoian in a superstock called Keresiouan. None of these proposals has been validated...
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    française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the...
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    separated from other Algonquian languages by speakers of Iroquoian and Siouan-Catawban languages. A few centuries later, Proto-Southern New England Algonquian...
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    Tuscarora, sometimes called Skarò˙rə̨ˀ, is the Iroquoian language of the Tuscarora people, spoken in southern Ontario, Canada, North Carolina and northwestern...
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    documented and most studied in the Americas. Modern Mayan languages descend from Proto-Mayan, a language thought to have been spoken at least 4,000 years ago;...
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  • M–T and N–M pronoun patterns (category Languages of Europe)
    Chitimacha, Cuitlatec, Haida, Kutenai, Proto-Caddoan, Proto-Chimakuan, Proto-Comecrudan, Proto-Iroquoian, Proto-Muskogean, Proto-Siouan-Catawba, Tonkawa, Waikuri...
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    number of features present in proto-Inuit language and in Yup'ik, enough so that they might be classed as Yup'ik languages if they were viewed in isolation...
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    reflected in their language by tracing the changing meanings of words from Proto-Athabaskan to Navajo. For example, the word *dè:, which in Proto-Athabaskan meant...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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  • Arikara (Split-S; also known as Ree) Pawnee In Eastern North America Iroquoian languages Mohawk (Ontario, Quebec and northern New York) Seneca (Split-S; Western...
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    Almosan Algic Kutenai Mosan Chimakuan Salishan Wakashan Keresiouan Caddoan Iroquoian Keresan Siouan–Yuchi Siouan Yuchi Penutian–Hokan Penutian Tsimshian Chinook...
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  • 17th century (Abkhaz, Adyghe, Ubykh) Indigenous Australian languages: 18th century Iroquoian: 19th century (Cherokee) Hmong-Mien: 20th century Ancient...
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    Mesoamerica, and the Na-Dene, Iroquoian, and Algonquian language families of North America. In Australia, most indigenous languages belong to the Pama-Nyungan...
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    preserved on a predominantly Iroquoian-speaking reserve in Ontario. Previously, the only recorded information on the language had been a short list of words...
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