Pueblo linguistic area
The Pueblo linguistic area (or Pueblo Sprachbund, Pueblo convergence area) is a Sprachbund (group of languages with similarities due to language contact) consisting of the languages spoken in and near North American Pueblo locations. There are also many shared cultural practices in this area. For example, these cultures share many ceremonial vocabulary terms meant for prayer or song.Template:Sfn
Language membership
The languages of the linguistic area are the following:
The languages belong to five different families: Zuni, Tanoan, Keresan, Uto-Aztecan (Hopi), and Athabaskan (Navajo, from the Apachean subfamily). Zuni is a language isolate. Navajo is only a marginal member of the Sprachbund and does not share all its linguistic features. This is because the ancestors of the Navajo originate from the Athabaskan region (located in modern-day Canada and Alaska), and as a result they were relatively late in arriving to the Southwest compared to their Puebloan neighbors. Languages in the Tanoan and Apachean families, and additionally Hopi, can be compared to relatives not affected by this particular region's areal features as a reference for changes due to contact.Template:Sfn
Tanoan consists of Taos, Picurís, Tewa, and Jemez. Keresan consists of Eastern Keres and Western Keres.[1]
The following are the shared linguistic traits of the Pueblo Sprachbund:
- tones, absent only in ZuniTemplate:Sfn
- SOV word order (though inherited from proto-languages in the case of Navajo (Proto-Athabaskan) and Hopi (Proto(-Northern)-Uto-Aztecan))Template:Sfn
- ejective consonants Template:Sfn
- aspirated consonants Template:Sfn
- Script error: No such module "IPA". vowel systems Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
- final devoicing of vowels & sonorantsTemplate:Sfn
- dual number
- ceremonial vocabulary Template:Sfn
- labialized velar stops Script error: No such module "IPA". Template:Sfn
Most languages have ejectives. Zuni may have developed ejectives due to contact with Tanoan and Keresan which both have complete series of ejectives: Zuni has Script error: No such module "IPA". but lacks the ejectives Script error: No such module "IPA". found in the other languages. Taos and Picurís (both Tanoan) have Script error: No such module "IPA".; Tewa (Tanoan) has Script error: No such module "IPA".; Jemez (Tanoan) has Script error: No such module "IPA".;[2] Keresan has Script error: No such module "IPA". (as well as glottalized sonorants Script error: No such module "IPA".). Hopi lacks ejectives completely. Navajo has Script error: No such module "IPA"..[3]
Navajo may have acquired the stop /kʷ/ from Puebloan contact.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Sherzer suggests that contact led to Acoma Keres sharing glottalized sonorants and glides with Navajo.Template:Sfn
Zuni may have obtained its partial glottalized set and aspirants via contact with Tanoan and Keresan, which both have fully integrated series of glottals.Template:Sfn
Other shared traits include Santa Clara acquiring retroflex sounds from Keresan and the Navajo acquiring /hʷ/ from Tanoan contact.Template:Sfn Keresan may be the common source of glottalized nasals and semivowels in Navajo, and the development of /r/ in dialects of Tewa and Tiwa and possibly Hopi.Template:Sfn
Linguist Paul Kroskrity argues for diffused Apachean traits in Tewa, such as the passive marked by prefixes that are structured differently from those of other Tanoan languages.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn In these languages the verb is made intransitive by allowing an agent argument in the verb structure.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn This also includes patient subjects and cases where the subject must be animate, including raising animate objects to the place of inanimate subjects.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Further, Navajo and Tewa are the only languages in this group to have a "recognizable anaphor as a relativizer" when forming relative clauses.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Kroskrity also finds similarity in the Tewa possessive suffix -bí, which parallels the third person possessive prefix bi- found in Apachean languages.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn This can be seen in the following example provided by Kroskrity:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn
| Arizona Tewa | Navajo |
|---|---|
| Template:Interlinear | Template:Interlinear |
This paralleling morpheme is also used in these languages' postpositional constructions.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn The reason for this diffusion has been attributed to trade networks and Apachean settlements near Pueblos in winter months.Template:Sfn
Vowels
Sherzer suggests that the 2-2-1 vowel system found in Tanoan languages (i u - e o - a) may be a result of contact with Zuni and Keresan language families.Template:Sfn Sherzer states, "A 2-2-1 vowel system is a Pueblo-centered regional areal trait. Its development in some Tanoan languages may be due to contact with Zuni and Keresan."Template:Sfn
See also
Notes
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- ↑ Keresan (or Keres) has variously been considered as a small family of two languages or a single language of dialect chaining.
- ↑ In Jemez, Proto-Tanoan
- c’ has merged with
- t’ and
- kʷ’ has merged with
- kʷ explaining the lack of Script error: No such module "IPA". in Jemez that are found in other Tanoan languages.
- ↑ The lack of Script error: No such module "IPA". in Navajo is an inheritance from Proto-Athabascan.
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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