| 释义 |
Shoshonean, a. and n.|ʃəʊˈʃəʊnɪən|
Also -ian.
[f. prec. + -an.]
(Designating) a branch of the Uto-Aztecan languages including Shoshone; of or pertaining to speakers of these languages.
1891J. W. Powell in Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. VII. 109 Very likely much of the area occupied by the Atsina was formerly Shoshonean territory. 1893A. F. Chamberlain in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1892 589 A seeming similarity in a few points of general structure to the Shoshonian and to the Siouan tongues. 1904Rep. U.S. Nat. Museum 1901–2 472 All the Shoshonean types of weaving, all their forms of baskets, and most of the patterns on them are ancient. 1921A. F. Hall Handbk. Yosemite Nat. Park 51 The Mono..are an offshoot from the Paiutes and other Shoshoneans of Nevada and the Great Basin country. 1929E. Sapir in Encycl. Brit. V. 138/1 Shoshonean..occupies the greater part of the Great Basin area and contiguous territory in southern California and the southwestern Plains. 1932[see Pima]. 1940M. J. Rogers in E. C. Jaeger California Deserts xi. 117 In historic times the Mohave Desert had fallen almost entirely into the hands of the Shoshoneans. 1950F. Eggan Social Organization of Western Pueblos i. 13 By comparing the Hopi system with other Shoshonean systems, he came to the conclusion that ‘linguistic conservatism has been of slight importance in the history of the present Hopi nomenclature’. 1974Amer. Anthropologist LXXVI. 11 (heading) An archaeological perspective on Shoshonean bands. |