<html dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style id="owaParaStyle" type="text/css">P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style>
</head>
<body ocsi="0" fpstyle="1" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Good question! This reminds me of my favorite "Siouanist turned Athabascanist" pet peeve. Sapir famously said that there is something about Athabascan languages that prevents
them from borrowing from other languages.<br>
<br>
This never convinced me, since Siouan languages borrow very little from other languages as well, and structurally they are less complex than Athabascan. The only loanword I can think of in traditional Lakota is bebela, from French bebe.<br>
<br>
Of course I am sure that in modern Lakota, when everyone is bilingual if not dominant in English, there is a lot of English... But that is true of modern Navajo as well.<br>
<br>
Willem<br>
<div style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: 16px">
<hr tabindex="-1">
<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF253025"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Siouan Linguistics [SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu] on behalf of David Costa [pankihtamwa@EARTHLINK.NET]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 07, 2013 4:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Locatives and wa- problems.<br>
</font><br>
</div>
<div></div>
<div>
<div>Bob, are you aware of <i>any </i>Algonquian influences on Hochunk? Despite their being an island of Siouan in a sea of Algonquian languages, they seem to have mixed
<i>very </i>little with the Algonquians in Wisconsin. I'm not aware of a single Hochunk loan in any Algonquian language. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Dave</div>
<div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
<blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate; font-family:Helvetica; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; orphans:2; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; font-size:medium"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:19px">It’s
hard to say whether the “different” Hochunk pattern represents a retention of something lost everywhere else or an innovation, perhaps brought on by extensive contact with Algonquian,<span> </span></span></span></blockquote>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>