The Indigenous Languages of the Southeast  

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Goddard, Ives

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 47 no. 1 (Mar. 2005), page 1-60.
Fulltext: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 1-60.pdf (8.09MB)

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over one hundred years, the conventional view has been that the languages of the Southeast (roughly the southeastern quadrant of the United States) belonged to a relatively small number of language families, of which Muskogean and Siouan were the most widespread. The available evidence, however, including historical records extending back nearly five centuries, shows the Southeast to have been an area of great linguistic diversity and supports the presence of Muskogean and Siouan-Catawba languages only in relatively restricted areas. The reality is that a very large number of the languages spoken by small local populations, and in some cases by larger groups, are undocumented, and it is likely that additional language families were represented among these lost languages. A new map of the indigenous languages of the Southeast reflects a more realistic assessment of the current state of knowledge.

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