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Proto-Yeniseian
Proto-Yeniseic, PY
Reconstruction ofYeniseian languages
Reconstructed
ancestor		Proto-Dené–Yeniseian?
Lower-order reconstructions

Proto-Yeniseian or Proto-Yeniseic is the unattested reconstructed proto-language from which all Yeniseian languages are thought to descend from. It is uncertain whether Proto-Yeniseian had a similar tone/pitch accent system as Ket. Many studies about Proto-Yeniseian phonology have been done; however, there are still many things unclear about Proto-Yeniseian. The probable location of the Yeniseian homeland is proposed on the basis of geographic names and genetic studies, which suggests a homeland in Southern Siberia.

Phonology

According to Vajda, Proto-Yeniseian had the following phonemes, expressed in IPA symbols.

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex Palatal Labiovelar Velar Uvular
Nasal *m *n *ŋʷ *ŋ
Plosive voiceless *p *t *č *tʳ *c *kʷ *k *q
voiced *b *d *ǰ *dʳ *ɟ *ɡʷ *ɡ *ɢ
Fricative *s *š (*šʳ ) *ç *xʷ *x *χ
Lateral *ɬ *tɬ
Approximant *w *j
Rhotic *r

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close *i *ij *iw *u *uj *uw
Mid *e *ej *ew *o *oj *ow
Open *a *aj *aw

Vocabulary

  • *xuɬ ‘water’
  • *xuše ‘birch tree’
  • *am ‘mother’
  • *ejn ‘wedge’
  • *qed ‘man’
  • *bes ‘rabbit’
  • *don ‘knife’
  • *kus ‘horse’
  • *pub ‘son’
  • *bus ‘penis’
  • *satʳ ‘crucian (fish)’
  • *baŋ ‘land’
  • *tijk ‘snow’
  • *bejx ‘wind’
  • *tɬiwdʳ ‘lard’, ‘oil’
  • *ɬaɢa ‘star’

References

  1. "Ket language".
  2. de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2006). "Proto-Yeniseian ūr₁'water'". Central Asiatic Journal. 50 (1): 3–7. JSTOR 41928405.
  3. "Yeneseian and Dene hydronyms" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-20. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  4. Fortescue, Michael D.; Vajda, Edward J. (2022), Mid-Holocene Language Connections Between Asia and North America, (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill.

Further reading

  • Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2003). "Yeniseic languages from a Siberian areal perspective". STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 56 (1–2): 12–39. doi:10.1524/stuf.2003.56.12.12.
  • Bonmann, S.; Fries, S.; Korobzow, N.; Günther, L.; Hill, E. (2023). "Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants". International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics. 5 (1): 39–82. doi:10.1163/25898833-20230037.
    • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Bonmann, Svenja (2024). "Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants". International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics. 6 (2): 216–293. doi:10.1163/25898833-20240062.
  • Fries, Simon; Bonmann, Svenja (2023). "The Development of Arin kul 'water' ~ Kott ûl, Ket ¹u·l', Yugh ¹ur and Its Typological Background"". International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics. 5 (2): 183–198. doi:10.1163/25898833-20230044.
  • de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2010). "Proto-Yeniseian *dïn ~ *dïñ 'Fir Tree'". Central Asiatic Journal. 54 (1): 12–21. JSTOR 41928529. Accessed 19 June 2023.
  • Janhunen, Juha (2012). "Etymological and ethnohistorical aspects of the Yenisei". Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (SEC). 17 (1): 67–87.
  • Starostin, Sergei A.; Ruhlen, Merritt (1994). "Proto-Yeniseian Reconstructions, with Extra-Yeniseian Comparisons". On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. pp. 70–92. doi:10.1515/9781503622357-006. ISBN 978-1-5036-2235-7.
  • Timonina, Lyudmila G. (2004). "On distinguishing loanwords from the original Proto-Yeniseic lexicon". In Vajda, E. J. (ed.). Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Vol. 262. pp. 135–142. doi:10.1075/cilt.262.07tim. ISBN 978-90-272-4776-6.
  • Vajda, Edward. "Losing semantic alignment: from Proto-Yeniseic to Modern Ket". In: The typology of semantic alignment. Eds. Tim Donohue & Soeren Wichman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. pp. 140–161. ISBN 9780199238385.
  • Vajda, Edward (2022). "Yeniseian Languages". Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 246–278. doi:10.1163/9789004436824_013. ISBN 978-90-04-43682-4.
  • Vajda, Edward. "8 The Yeniseian language family". The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families, edited by Edward Vajda, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024, pp. 365-480. doi:10.1515/9783110556216-008
  • М. В. Филимонов. "Праенисейская падежная система и некоторые проблемы морфологии имени в енисейских языках" . In: Вестник Томского государственного педагогического университета, no. 4 (12), 1999, pp. 64-66. URL: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/praeniseyskaya-padezhnaya-sistema-i-nekotorye-problemy-morfologii-imeni-v-eniseyskih-yazykah (дата обращения: 19.06.2023). (in Russian)

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