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Natchez language

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180: 301:. That meant that Natchez speakers were frequently multilingual in Muscogee, Cherokee, Natchez, and English. The language gradually became endangered, and it is now generally considered extinct in spite of recent revitalization efforts. Much of what is known of the language comes mostly from its last fluent speakers, 1074:
and are inflected by means of prefixes and suffixes, whereas dependent verbs are not morphologically inflected but require auxiliary verbs for inflection. Most dependent verbs have four different root shapes depending on number of subject and object and number of times the action is repeated. Natchez has
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Natchez oral literature has been documented by John R. Swanton and Mary Haas, both of whom worked with Watt Sam in 1907 and the mid 1930s, respectively. Traditionally the Natchez had certain stories that could only be told during the winter time, and many of these stories revolved around the theme of
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Accent in Natchez is based on pitch rather than stress. Accent falls predictably on the penultimate syllable if it contains a long vowel, otherwise on the ante-penultimate. Accented short vowels are pronounced with high pitch, accented long vowels are pronounced with rising pitch, unaccented vowels
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Natchez has two basic word classes: nouns and verbs, and a number of minor categories such as deictics, particles and interjections. Adverbial and adjectival modifiers belong to the nominal word class. It has two classes of verbs, dependent and independent. Independent verbs have an invariant root
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Stative verbs are verbs that do not imply willful control of the action by its subject. They tend to be intransitive and the subject tends to be marked by the absolutive case. One group of stative verbs, called "direct impersonal verbs" by Haas, use the object prefixes to mark the subject, and
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The most common constituent orders are "Subject-Verb" (for intransitive verbs) and "Agent-Verb" (for transitive verbs), "Direct.Object-Verb" and "Agent-Direct.Object-Verb. But the order "Direct.Object-Agent-Verb" does also occur in constructions with object focus. Agent-Verb-Direct.Object, a
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There are a number of noun modifying suffixes such as the decessive (used to refer to deceased persons, or persons who have changed into something else), the comparative and the "exclusive". The following example shows the use of the decessive modifier with the morpheme in bold face.
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There are about 20 different suffixes with verbal modificational meanings (including information about tense and aspect) such as interrogative, diminutive, focus, negative, completive, habitual, "but", "when", "and" (connective), future, "still", "keep on", "might". etc.
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The morphological class of preverbs express temporal distinctions (future, past, pluperfect), as well as abilitative, directional and locative information, and also incorporates nouns. For example, the following verb form has two preverbs before the verb root,
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The Natchez nation is now working to revive it as a spoken language. As of 2011, field linguists from the community were being trained in documentation techniques, and six members of the Natchez tribe in Oklahoma now speak the language, out of about 10,000.
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Dependent verbs inflect only for pluralization, but do so in complex ways. The stem may reduplicate to mark a singular subject and plural object or repeated action by singular subject, it may add the suffix
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Dependent verbs are formed by prefixing the dependent verb root to one of about 40 different auxiliary elements. Each auxiliary element has a vague meaning but some have meanings such as "transitive"
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another group, "indirect impersonal verbs", use the prefixes that are otherwise used to refer to indirect objects or benefactives. There are a few transitive stative verbs such as the dependent verb
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The Natchez chiefdom was destroyed in the 1730s by the French; Natchez speakers took refuge among their neighbors and accompanied them when the U.S. federal government forcibly removed them to
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of that area. The first mentions in historical sources come from the French who colonized the Mississippi Valley beginning around 1700, when the Natchez were centered around the
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One set of prefixes simultaneously encode person of intransitive subject and temporal, modal and epistemic information. The prefixes occur in two forms with either the vowel
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and for the third person either Ø or ī. The affixes only mark for person, not for number of the object. In independent verbs plural object is marked with the affix -
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The ergative/instrumental case, used to mark the agents of transitive verbs (as well as instruments and some locatives), is marked by a suffix with the form -
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Natchez is very little studied, apart from the work by Swanton and Haas and the early mentions by the French Chroniclers, Natchez has been discussed by
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when impersonating the cannibal characters. This register was distinct from ordinary Natchez by substituting several morphemes and words for others.
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Direct and indirect objects are marked on the verb with a series of affixes that immediately precede the root. The object affixes are first person
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The Natchez: Annotated translations from Antoine Simon le Page du Pratz's Histoire de la Louisiane and a short English-Natchez dictionary
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Dative objects are marked with a suffix that immediately follows the verb root, and which is itself always followed by a dative suffix -
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and linguist Charles Van Tuyl. These are the only known recordings of spoken Natchez. One of the cylinders is now at the
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Possession is marked with a suffix that agrees with the possessor. The singular possessive suffixes are: First person -
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policies of the mid 19th century forced them to relocate to Oklahoma. In Oklahoma the language was mostly spoken in
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The past and optative forms are formed by using their respective sets of subject prefixes (past first person
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processes. Morphologically, it has complex verbal inflection and a relatively simple nominal inflection (the
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studied the language with Sam and Raven in the 1930s, and posited that Natchez was distantly related to the
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word order (or more accurately Agent-Object-Verb and Subject-Verb). Natchez storytellers used a specific
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plural/plural-second.person.optative-auxiliary-first.person.dative-dative-modal-phrasal.termination
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who published an article "On the Language of the Natchez" in 1873, and is briefly mentioned by
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Noun morphology is entirely suffixing, and the nominal complex has the following structure:
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preverbs-subject-diminutive subject-aspect-dual subject-patient-patient type-plural subject-
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Plural and dual possessors are formed by using a restrictive relative clause with the verb
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recordings of Watt Sam speaking the Natchez language, which were later rediscovered at the
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Kimball, G. (2013). "The Woman Who Was a Fox: The Structure of a Natchez Oral Narrative".
1503:-; third person -Ø-. Combined with the dative suffix they take the following form: first: 997: 747: 624: 574: 534:
visited the Natchez there were seven fluent speakers left, but in the 1930s when linguist
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Table 4. shows some of the lexical substitutions charactering Natchez cannibal speech.
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ROOT-diminutive-augmentive-possessive-verbal diminutive-modifier-ergative-article-case
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Kimball, Geoffrey (2005). "Natchez". In Janine Scancarelli; Heather Kay Hardy (eds.).
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Natchez has a relatively simple consonant inventory. But it stands out by having a
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The Natchez verb is highly complex and has the following morphological structure:
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Here the plural dative object is implied by the plural form of the verb root.
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Nicholas A. Hopkins, "The Native Languages of the Southeastern United States"
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Kimball, G. (2013). "The Marking of Nonsingular Verbal Objects in Natchez".
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construction with focus on the verb, also occurs, albeit very infrequently.
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This is an example of the use of the object prefix (object affix in bold):
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The phonology of Natchez is atypical in having voicing distinction in its
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Table 1. Natchez-Muskogean cognate set from Kimball (2005)
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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Extinct indigenous language of Mississippi and Louisiana
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is exchanged for the cannibal register optative prefix
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Kimball, Geoffrey (2012). "Natchez Cannibal Speech".
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In 1941 Haas also proposed grouping Natchez with the
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Indigenous languages of the North American Southeast
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The pluperfect prefix requires the preverb - 1012: 601:, the opposite of most languages in the world. 427:The Natchez language is generally considered a 184:Precontact distribution of the Natchez language 2940: 2871:International Journal of American Linguistics 2839:International Journal of American Linguistics 2802:International Journal of American Linguistics 2772:International Journal of American Linguistics 2113:In this example the standard optative prefix 1377:(only recorded with the hearsay prefix), and 27: 8: 1411:An example of the use of aspect affixes is: 458:languages in a language family to be called 270:marks nouns in transitive clauses), and its 3831: 3652: 3557: 3270: 3049: 2947: 2933: 2925: 2715:(1873). "On the Language of the Natchez". 2317: 2315: 2295:"Language of extinct tribe haunts scholar" 2037: 1152: 996:have mid pitch, and certain forms such as 330: 178: 18: 2956:Indigenous language families and isolates 2378: 1408:and the present tense form of the verb. 1318:The dual is formed by adding the prefix 902: 603: 3981:Native American language revitalization 2696: 2684: 2672: 2660: 2648: 2636: 2624: 2612: 2600: 2585: 2570: 2555: 2543: 2531: 2519: 2507: 2495: 2483: 2471: 2459: 2444: 2429: 2417: 2405: 2393: 2366: 2354: 2293:Fricker, Richard L. (October 9, 1977). 2280: 2256: 2244: 2163: 893: 538:did her fieldwork there were only two: 465: 203:question marks, boxes, or other symbols 2324:The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 2039:Table 4. "Cannibal Speech Vocabulary" 1428:hearsay-imperfect-auxiliary-connective 606: 113: 7: 2229: 1347:Participial forms take the prefixes 245:indigenous languages of the Americas 2143:first.person.optative.(cannibal)-pl 3976:Extinct languages of North America 3971:Language isolates of North America 1895:"to exist for someone (to have)". 1369:There are three aspect prefixes, - 1129:i-incompletive-phrasal.termination 554:in the 1970s by Watt Sam's nephew 14: 1459:- indicates a diminutive object. 983: 967: 960: 953: 939: 930: 876: 867: 860: 840: 831: 824: 795: 788: 764: 757: 738: 727: 701: 685: 678: 671: 662: 655: 223:is the ancestral language of the 2147:incompletive-phrasal.termination 2732:. University of Nebraska Press. 1571:"You will leave it here for us" 1322:and the plural with the prefix 3996:Languages extinct in the 1950s 2902:. Oklahoma Historical Society. 2322:Barnett, James F. Jr. (2007). 505:Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz 262:; it also has a wide range of 1: 2916:, sample story and vocabulary 2914:Natchez Nation language page 2013:"to be tired of something". 1986:decessive-article-absolutive 1959:"opossum skinned him and..." 1154:Table 3. "Subject prefixes" 892:, and a length distinction. 849: 810: 779: 745: 716: 692: 648: 530:In 1907 when anthropologist 247:or distantly related to the 2192:Smith, Diane (2011-06-15). 309:, who worked with linguist 227:who historically inhabited 4012: 1723:"he gets drunk repeatedly" 480:historically lived in the 324: 1850:"your"; and third person 811: 746: 717: 693: 649: 628: 623: 618: 613: 608: 564:Michigan State University 189: 177: 26: 2898:Van Tuyl, C. D. (1979). 1487:"let her kill me and..." 1076:active-stative alignment 1061:person Natchez 1S.PAT-be 482:Lower Mississippi Valley 276:active-stative alignment 79:1957, with the death of 2198:Seattle Times Newspaper 2181:(subscription required) 1782:get.drunk -PL.SUBJ -AUX 1610:, "involuntary action" 1058:/tom̥ naːʃt͡ʃeh ta-ʔaː/ 888:There were six vowels, 571:Daniel Garrison Brinton 28: 3940:Unclassified languages 2069:"to howl (of a wolf)" 1479:third.person.optative- 1070: 191:This article contains 2047:Standard Natchez word 1844:"my"; Second person - 1720:get.drunk -REDUP -AUX 1483:-auxiliary-connective 1121:nok-kin-han-ta-w-a:-~ 552:University of Chicago 499:close to present day 1004:have falling pitch. 501:Natchez, Mississippi 274:is characterized by 3889:Algonquian–Wakashan 2534:, pp. 415–421. 2283:, pp. 385–453. 2216:"Introduction", in 2040: 1917:Ergative/Absolutive 1481:first.person.object 1155: 591:voicing distinction 437:Muskogean languages 333: 280:subject-object-verb 249:Muskogean languages 3877:Proposed groupings 2967:Language families 2510:, pp. 414–15. 2498:, pp. 413–14. 2474:, pp. 411–12. 2151:"Let us eat him!" 2102:ʔen̥pat͡s-haɬsiʔiʃ 2038: 1939:ʔakʷenuht͡sahokʃaɬ 1901:kitahnataniːt͡siya 1790:Nominal morphology 1499:-; second person - 1277:; optative: first 1261:"he/she/it drinks" 1153: 1055:toM na·šceh taʔa·. 542:(1876 - 1944) and 486:Plaquemine culture 331: 3953: 3952: 3935:Extinct languages 3872: 3871: 3868: 3867: 3683: 3682: 3609: 3608: 3363: 3362: 3339:Takelma–Kalapuyan 2627:, pp. 428–9. 2179:(18th ed., 2015) 2111: 2110: 1604:, "intransitive" 1551:maː-leːheː-paː-l- 1360:"drinking, drunk" 1314:"he/she/it drank" 1229: 1228: 1159:tense/mode/person 1082:Verbal inflection 993: 992: 886: 885: 854: 819: 784: 754: 644: 638: 425: 424: 410:Natchez-Muskogean 217: 216: 199:rendering support 195:phonetic symbols. 4003: 3945:Linguistic areas 3832: 3653: 3558: 3271: 3050: 2949: 2942: 2935: 2926: 2903: 2894: 2862: 2833: 2796: 2765: 2733: 2724: 2700: 2694: 2688: 2682: 2676: 2670: 2664: 2658: 2652: 2646: 2640: 2634: 2628: 2622: 2616: 2610: 2604: 2598: 2589: 2583: 2574: 2568: 2559: 2553: 2547: 2541: 2535: 2529: 2523: 2517: 2511: 2505: 2499: 2493: 2487: 2481: 2475: 2469: 2463: 2457: 2448: 2442: 2433: 2427: 2421: 2420:, p. 404-5. 2415: 2409: 2408:, p. 401-2. 2403: 2397: 2391: 2382: 2376: 2370: 2364: 2358: 2352: 2346: 2345: 2319: 2310: 2309: 2307: 2305: 2290: 2284: 2278: 2272: 2266: 2260: 2254: 2248: 2242: 2233: 2227: 2221: 2214: 2208: 2207: 2205: 2204: 2189: 2183: 2182: 2171:Natchez language 2168: 2148: 2144: 2138: 2131: 2118: 2103: 2096: 2084: 2077: 2065: 2058: 2041: 2017:Discourse styles 2012: 1987: 1980: 1956: 1950: 1940: 1931: 1925: 1910: 1902: 1887:"his/her friend" 1885: 1877: 1869: 1854: 1848: 1842: 1820:"Natchez person" 1785:"they get drunk" 1771: 1760: 1756: 1735: 1709: 1698: 1676: 1664: 1660: 1642: 1623: 1614: 1608: 1602: 1596: 1568: 1564: 1557: 1552: 1546: 1542: 1538: 1529: 1523: 1519: 1512: 1508: 1484: 1469: 1453: 1445:; second person 1429: 1422: 1393: 1382: 1358: 1341: 1333: 1312: 1304: 1296: 1269:, second person 1259: 1251: 1243: 1235: 1156: 1138:Subject prefixes 1130: 1126: 1050: 1046: 987: 971: 964: 957: 943: 934: 903: 891: 880: 871: 864: 852: 844: 835: 828: 817: 799: 792: 782: 768: 761: 752: 742: 731: 705: 689: 682: 675: 666: 659: 642: 636: 604: 509:Natchez revolted 429:language isolate 417: 388: 374: 334: 291:Indian Territory 237:Cherokee peoples 221:Natchez language 182: 161: 145: 138: 108:Language isolate 102: 31: 19: 4011: 4010: 4006: 4005: 4004: 4002: 4001: 4000: 3956: 3955: 3954: 3949: 3918: 3864: 3830: 3812:linguistic area 3811: 3803: 3692:linguistic area 3691: 3679: 3651: 3605: 3556: 3501:linguistic area 3500: 3492: 3466:linguistic area 3465: 3458: 3359: 3333: 3302: 3269: 3216: 3176: 3143: 3109: 3075: 3048: 2968: 2962: 2953: 2910: 2897: 2865: 2836: 2799: 2768: 2736: 2727: 2711: 2708: 2703: 2695: 2691: 2683: 2679: 2671: 2667: 2659: 2655: 2647: 2643: 2635: 2631: 2623: 2619: 2611: 2607: 2599: 2592: 2584: 2577: 2569: 2562: 2554: 2550: 2542: 2538: 2530: 2526: 2522:, pp. 415. 2518: 2514: 2506: 2502: 2494: 2490: 2482: 2478: 2470: 2466: 2458: 2451: 2443: 2436: 2428: 2424: 2416: 2412: 2404: 2400: 2392: 2385: 2377: 2373: 2365: 2361: 2353: 2349: 2334: 2321: 2320: 2313: 2303: 2301: 2299:Boca Raton News 2292: 2291: 2287: 2279: 2275: 2267: 2263: 2255: 2251: 2243: 2236: 2228: 2224: 2215: 2211: 2202: 2200: 2191: 2190: 2186: 2180: 2169: 2165: 2161: 2146: 2142: 2024: 2022:Cannibal speech 2019: 2006: 1997: 1985: 1966: 1954: 1919: 1856:"his/her/its". 1836: 1829:"Natchez child" 1803: 1792: 1787: 1773: 1762: 1745: 1737: 1725: 1711: 1700: 1686: 1678: 1654: 1652:"he gets drunk" 1644: 1633: 1625: 1598:, "reciprocal" 1590: 1588:Dependent verbs 1581: 1566: 1562: 1478: 1439: 1427: 1367: 1273:, third person 1140: 1128: 1124: 1117:nokkinhanta:wã: 1101: 1084: 1071: 1066: 1053: 1035: 1024: 1010: 597:but not in its 587: 575:Albert Gallatin 532:John R. 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G. 2707: 2704: 2702: 2701: 2699:, p. 275. 2689: 2677: 2675:, p. 441. 2665: 2663:, p. 439. 2653: 2651:, p. 444. 2641: 2639:, p. 428. 2629: 2617: 2615:, p. 429. 2605: 2603:, p. 427. 2590: 2588:, p. 426. 2575: 2573:, p. 425. 2560: 2558:, p. 242. 2548: 2546:, p. 403. 2536: 2524: 2512: 2500: 2488: 2486:, p. 411. 2476: 2464: 2462:, p. 409. 2449: 2447:, p. 408. 2434: 2432:, p. 405. 2422: 2410: 2398: 2396:, p. 396. 2383: 2371: 2369:, p. 451. 2359: 2347: 2332: 2311: 2285: 2273: 2261: 2249: 2247:, p. 402. 2234: 2222: 2209: 2184: 2162: 2160: 2157: 2153: 2152: 2149: 2140: 2137:ka-pi-ʃkʷ-aː-n 2133: 2109: 2108: 2105: 2098: 2090: 2089: 2086: 2079: 2071: 2070: 2067: 2060: 2052: 2051: 2048: 2045: 2023: 2020: 2018: 2015: 2005: 2002: 1996: 1993: 1992: 1991: 1988: 1982: 1965: 1962: 1961: 1960: 1957: 1951: 1942: 1918: 1915: 1914: 1913: 1909:kitahnapiːʃiya 1905: 1889: 1888: 1880: 1872: 1864: 1835: 1832: 1831: 1830: 1821: 1802: 1799: 1791: 1788: 1763: 1746: 1738: 1727: 1726: 1701: 1687: 1679: 1668: 1667: 1649:get.drunk -AUX 1634: 1626: 1619: 1618: 1589: 1586: 1580: 1579:Modal suffixes 1577: 1573: 1572: 1569: 1560: 1548: 1537:maː-leːheːpaːl 1489: 1488: 1485: 1475: 1438: 1435: 1434: 1433: 1430: 1424: 1366: 1365:Aspect affixes 1363: 1362: 1361: 1345: 1344: 1336: 1335:"we two drink" 1332:ta-pani-hkuʃãː 1316: 1315: 1307: 1299: 1263: 1262: 1254: 1246: 1238: 1227: 1226: 1221: 1216: 1212: 1211: 1206: 1201: 1200:Present second 1197: 1196: 1191: 1186: 1182: 1181: 1176: 1171: 1167: 1166: 1163: 1160: 1139: 1136: 1135: 1134: 1131: 1122: 1119: 1100: 1097: 1096: 1095: 1083: 1080: 1064:"I am Natchez" 1036: 1025: 1014: 1013: 1011: 1009: 1006: 1002:interrogatives 991: 990: 988: 981: 979: 973: 972: 965: 958: 951: 945: 944: 937: 935: 928: 922: 921: 916: 911: 906: 884: 883: 881: 874: 872: 865: 858: 856: 848: 847: 845: 838: 836: 829: 822: 820: 815: 809: 808: 806: 804: 802: 800: 793: 786: 778: 777: 775: 773: 771: 769: 762: 755: 750: 744: 743: 736: 734: 732: 725: 723: 721: 715: 714: 712: 710: 708: 706: 699: 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