Harshen Chiwere

 

Chiwere (wanda kuma ake kira Iowa-Otoe-Missouria ko Báxoje-Jíwere-Nyútʼachi ) yaren Siouan ne wanda asalin Missouria, Otoe, da mutanen Iowa ke magana, waɗanda suka samo asali daga yankin Manyan Tafkuna amma daga baya suka ƙaura zuwa tsakiyar Yamma da filayen. Harshen yana da alaƙa da Ho-Chunk, wanda kuma aka sani da Winnebago.

Mishan na Kirista da ba na asali ba sun fara rubuta Chiwere a cikin 1830s, amma tun lokacin ba a buga abubuwa da yawa game da harshen ba. Chiwere ya sami koma baya bayan da aka tsawaita huldar Amurkawa ta Turai a cikin shekarun 1850, kuma ya zuwa 1940 kusan an daina magana da harshen.

"Tciwere itce" (a cikin yaren Otoe) da "Tcekiwere itce" (a cikin yaren Iowa) suna fassara zuwa "Don yin magana da yaren gida." [1] An ce sunan "Chiwere" ya samo asali ne daga mutumin da ya sadu da baƙo a cikin duhu. Idan wani baƙo a cikin duhu ya ƙalubalanci mutum ya gane kansa, mutumin zai iya amsawa "Ni Tci-we-re" (Otoe) ko "Ni Tce-ki-we-re" (Iowa), wanda ke fassara zuwa " Ni na mutanen ƙasar nan ne" ko kuma "Ni na waɗanda ke zaune a nan ne."

  1. NAA MS 4800 [59]. "Three drafts of On the Comparative Phonology of Four Siouan Languages - James O. Dorsey papers, circa 1870-1956, bulk 1870-1895." National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

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