Proto Witotoan (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, vol.114)

In Proto Witotoan the author, Richard Aschmann, describes how, by making use only of evidence from languages spoken today, he reconstructed the protolanguage of six languages found in the Amazonian areas of Peru, Colombia, and Brazil.

Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Introduction
1.1 Bora
1.2 Muinane
1.3 Nipode Huitoto
1.4 Minica Huitoto
1.5 Murui Huitoto
1.6 Ocaina
1.7 Accent and Tone

2. Proto Bora-Muinane
2.1-2.5 Consonant Reflexes
2.1 The palatalization process
2.2 Aspiration and devoicing of stops in Bora
2.3 Fricativization in Muinane
2.4 Loss of glottal
2.5 Reflexes of PBM *g

2.6-2.7 Vowel reflexes
2.6 The vowel rotation
2.7 Vowel harmony in Muinane

2.8-2.15 PBM sound changes
2.8 Voiceless stops
2.9 Voiced stops
2.10 Glottal
2.11 Fricatives
2.12 Nasals
2.13 Liquids
2.14 Early vowel rules
2.15 Later vowel rules (Muinane)
2.16 Features not considered

3. Proto Huitoto-Ocaina
3.1-3.5 Consonant reflexes
3.1 Fricativization and implosives
3.2 Alveolar and alveopalatal stops and affricates
3.3 Nasal consonants
3.4 Geminate consonants
3.5 Loss of glottal

3.6-3.7 Vowel reflexes
3.6 Vowel system changes
3.7 Nasalization

3.8-3.14 PHO sound changes
3.8 Voiceless stops
3.9 Voiced stops
3.10 Glottal
3.11 Fricatives
3.12 Nasals
3.13 Semivowel
3.14 Vowels
3.15 Features not considered

4. Proto Witotoan
4.1 Consonant reflexes
4.2 Vowel reflexes

4.3-4.10 PW sound changes
4.3 Voiceless stops
4.4 Voiced stops
4.5 Glottal
4.6 Fricatives
4.7 Nasals
4.8 Vowel umlaut process summary
4.9 Pure vowels
4.10 Diphthongs and **i

5. In Summary
5.1 Witotoan sound changes
5.2 The time frame
5.3 Some theoretical considerations

Comparative Wordlist

References