图尼加语

Tunica

图尼加语是一种孤立语言，过去分布在美国，现已消亡。

图尼加语 · 31.0°N 92.5°W

孤立语言：与世界上任何已知语言都无法证明有亲缘关系。

The Tunica or Luhchi Yoroni (or Tonica, or less common form Yuron) language is a language isolate that was spoken in the Central and Lower Mississippi Valley in the United States by Native American Tunica peoples. There are no native speakers of the Tunica language, but there were 32 second-language speakers in 2017, and as of 2023, there are 60 second-language speakers.

Tunica-Biloxi tribal member William Ely Johnson worked with Swiss ethnologist Albert Gatschet to help him document the language in 1886. This initial documentation was further developed by linguist John R. Swanton in the early 1900s.

The last known native speaker, Sesostrie Youchigant, died in 1948. In the 1930s, linguist Mary Haas worked with him to describe what Youchigant remembered of the language, and the description was published in A Grammar of the Tunica Language in 1941. That was followed by Tunica Texts in 1950 and Tunica Dictionary in 1953.

摘自英文维基百科 · Tunica language · CC BY-SA 4.0

图尼加语的常用词

意思	词	转写
女人	nuxtci
人	oni*
名字	etisa*
眼睛	Stosu*
耳朵	alawEca*
鼻子	riSi*
牙齿	ni*
舌头	lu*
手	hkeni*
血	tayiSi*
骨头	taki*
皮肤	takiSi*
膝盖	Cina*
乳房	uCu*
肝	elika*
水	wiši
火	ayiwo*
太阳	taC7i*
星星	tispula*
石头	kumaS*
山	tuhura*
树	riku*
叶子	tEraSki*
夜晚	lawu*
狗	sa*
鱼	nimi*
虱子	nami*
一	saku*
二	ili*
我	ima*