<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Dave,<BR>
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The short answer is "yes", there has been more research on the relationship of the Yuchi language to the Siouan languages that you are probably not aware of. I gave a paper back in the 1980s pointing out a fair number of lexical pairs among Yuchi, Catawba, and Proto-Siouan that appeared to be cognate. More recently, Bob has done research that demonstrates what appear to be cognate pronominal elements and a system of classificatory prefixes on nouns among Yuchi, Catawba, and Proto-Siouan. Bob may have done additional research that I am not aware of. The evidence taken together increases the probability that Yuchi, Catawba, and Proto-Siouan are genetically related. Whether the combined weight of the evidence is sufficient to "confirm" the relationship is still a matter of debate for some.<BR>
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I should note, however, that even if the relationship is taken as "confirmed", it is not appropriate to say that Yuchi is a Siouan language. Proto-Catawban (the ancestor of modern Catawba, the Woccon language, and perhaps other extinct languages of the Carolinas) and Proto-Siouan descend from coordinate off-shoots of a language that I refer to as Proto-Siouan-Catawban. Where Yuchi fits in is uncertain. Based on such morphological features as the absence of instrumental prefixes in Yuchi versus their presence in Catawba and Siouan, I would specualte that Proto-Siouan-Catawban and Pre-Yuchi were coordinate offshoots of a still older language that, for lack of a better term at the moment, could be called Proto-Siouan-Catawban-Yuchi.<BR>
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