#mascoian

[the-linguist-ll]

I made this tree of my favorite language families, Matacoan, Mascoian, and Guaicuruan.

#nivaclé #pilagá #enlhet #matacoan #mascoian #guaicuruan #linguistics #lingblr #langblr #historical linguistics

[for-remembrxnce]

@fullofhcart​

Bicé did not exactly miss the solitude of the frozen world, but she found it was quite a bit more difficult to study when she could not retreat to it.  She could not stop learning, though, so instead, she found solace in a hidden corner of the nearby library.  There, she had the silence, the privacy, that she desired to mutter in a range of different languages, uncovering the similarities and differences between each family as she mastered each one.  She hardly noticed the time passing -- but it did, and that realization struck her rather abruptly when she looked up from the Mascoian languages of Paraguay to discover that it was darker than it should be.  The library was closed.

She jumped up, hurriedly grabbing her books as she did.  They would not have locked her in, would they?  Not that she would really mind an entire night alone in a library, but her siblings would probably worry if she did not come home.  She nearly jumped out of her skin when she realized she was not actually alone.  “I’m sorry, I was just leaving.  I didn’t realize how late it was.”

#i hope you like it! #the very opposite of all those little evils (bice's replies) #c: bice & matilda #fullofhcart

[the-linguist-ll]

Updated phylogenies, reformatted the tree, changed some names, and added speaker counts.

Speaker counts from Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages by Lyle Campbell & Anna Belew et al (2020)

Also yeah this is technically my third post about a single tree(s) lol

Name changes:

Enlhet -> Enlhet Norte (To disambiguate)

Enxet -> Enxet Sur (To disambiguate)

Chamacoco -> Ishír (Internally preferred name)

Phylogenetic changes:

Reformatted the Guaicuruan family to be in line with a phylogeny composite between that offered by Glottolog, and one offered in Hierarchical Alignment and Comparative Linguistics in the Guaykuruan Languages: An Exhaustive Alignment Approach by Jens E. L. Van Gysel (2019)

Worth noting that some sources distinguish seperate Chorote & Wichí language subdivisions. I may add those.

#linguistics #lingblr #guaicuruan #mascoian #matacoan #zamucoan