Etymology Meets Ethnohistory: Linguistic Evidence for the Prehistoric Origin of the Guaná-Chané in the Northwestern Chaco

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI:10.1353/anl.2019.0020

Fernando O. de Carvalho

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Abstract

Abstract:This article discusses linguistic evidence on the migrations of Arawakan groups to the Paraguay region of South America. The fact that Guaicuruan loanwords in the language of the Guaná-Chané cluster semantically in domains related to bodies of water is best explained by tracing the origins of the Guaná-Chané to dryer environments, these loanwords referring to novel aspects of the Paraguay landscape that they encountered as they moved into it. These findings, combined with evidence in the ethnohistorical literature, support the hypothesis of a single prehistoric origin for the Guaná-Chané in the northwestern Chaco.

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词源学与民族学相遇：查科西北部关的史前起源的语言学证据

摘要：本文讨论了阿拉瓦坎族群向南美洲巴拉圭地区迁移的语言学证据。Guaná-Chané语中的Guaicuruan外来词在语义上聚集在与水体相关的领域，这一事实最好通过将Guaná-Chané的起源追溯到干燥的环境来解释，这些外来词指的是他们进入巴拉圭时遇到的巴拉圭景观的新方面，结合民族历史文献中的证据，支持了查科西北部Guaná-Chané的单一史前起源的假设。

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Anthropological Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification.