Proto-Uto-Aztecan language
- Proto-Uto-Aztecan language
The Proto-Uto-Aztecan language (abbreviated PUA; also sometimes Uto-Aztekan, Utoaztekan) is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Uto-Aztecan languages.
History
Phonology
Vowels
Proto-Uto-Aztecan is reconstructed as having an unusual five-vowel system: IPA|*i *a *u *o *ɨ. Langacker (1970) demonstrated that the fifth vowel should be reconstructed as IPA|*ɨ as opposed to IPA|*e—there had been a long-running dispute over the proper reconstruction (Campbell 1997:136).
Consonants
Note that in Americanist phonetic notation, IPA| and IPA| are equivalent to IPA IPA|/ts͡/ and IPA|/j/, respectively. IPA|*n and IPA|*ŋ may have actually been IPA|*l and IPA|*n, respectively.
Grammar
References
*Campbell, Lyle (1997). "American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America". Oxford: Oxford University Press
*cite journal|author=Langacker, Ronald W.|title=The Vowels of Proto Uto-Aztecan|journal=International Journal of American Linguistics|year=1970|volume=36|issue=3|pages=169–180|doi=10.1086/465108
External links
* [http://celia.cnrs.fr/FichExt/Am/A_21_04.htm Long vowels and morpheme boundaries in Nahuatl and Uto-Aztecan]
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