Chapter 9 Language Contacts of Pukina
In: Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia
Author:
Katja Hannß
Katja Hannß
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Abstract
The present paper will be concerned with language contacts the extinct Pukina language had with Uru-Chipaya, Proto-Takanan, Mapudungun and possibly Kunza. These suggestions are based mainly on lexical, but in part also on structural evidence. I will suggest that Pukina was donor language for at least Uru-Chipaya and Proto-Takanan, while in the case of Mapudungun (and Kunza) the direction of borrowing is not clear. It is furthermore proposed that the time depth of contacts between Pukina and Proto-Takanan possibly dates back to around 500 A.D., although contacts in general may have spanned the first millennium A.D., reaching into colonial times.