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Chitimacha (, ;〔Robert A. Brightman, 2004, "Chitimacha", In: William Sturtevant (ed.), ''Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast'', p. 642〕 or , 〔Carl Waldman, 2009, ''Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes''〕) is a language isolate historically spoken by the Chitimacha people of Louisiana, United States. It went extinct in 1940 with the death of the last fluent speaker, Delphine Ducloux. Although no longer spoken, it is fairly extensively documented in the early 20th-century work (mostly unpublished) of linguists Morris Swadesh and John R. Swanton. Swadesh in particular wrote a full grammar and dictionary, and collected numerous texts from the last two speakers, although none of this is published. Language revitalization efforts are underway to teach the language to a new generation of speakers. Tribal members have received Rosetta Stone software for learning the language. As of 2015, a new Chitimacha dictionary is in preparation, and classes are being taught on the Chitimacha reservation. Chitimacha has recently been proposed to be related to, or a member of the Totozoquean languages (an ongoing hypothesis that groups together the Totonacan and Mixe-Zoquean language families, spoken in Central America). An earlier, more speculative proposal was affinity with the also hypothetical group of Gulf languages. ==References== * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chitimacha language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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