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The Ofo language was a language spoken by the Mosopelea tribe who lived until c. 1673 in what is now Ohio along the Ohio River. They moved down the Mississippi River to Mississippi, near the Natchez people, and thence to Louisiana, settling near the Tunica. It was sometimes suspected that the Ofo language was Muskogean. But in 1908, anthropologist John R. Swanton discovered an aged female speaker living among the Tunica who had spoken Ofo since childhood. He obtained a vocabulary of the language, and quickly established that it was in fact Siouan, and similar to Biloxi. ==Phonology== Ofo follows Grassmann's Law, with counting as an aspirated consonant. Thus 'crane' + 'white' > 'white egret', and 'fire' + either 'to burn' or 'to breathe' > 'smoke'.〔De Reuse (1981) " Grassmann's Law in Ofo", ''IJAL'' 47: 243〕 The inventory is as follows:〔Rankin, Robert. ("The Ofo Language of Louisiana: Philological Recovery of Grammar and Typology" ). ''LAVIS III: Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives''. University of Alabama, 2004. PDF file.〕 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「Ofo language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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