Harsunan Sahaptian

Sahaptian (kuma Sahaptianic, Sahaptin, Shahaptian) reshe ne na harsuna biyu na dangin Plateau Penutian da 'Yan asalin Amurka ke magana a yankin Columbia Plateau na Washington, Oregon, da Idaho a arewa maso yammacin Amurka.

Kalmomin Sahaptian (iyali) da Sahaptin (harshe) galibi ana rikitar da su kuma ana amfani da su a cikin wallafe-wallafen.

 Rarrabawar iyali 
Sahaptian ya hada da harsuna biyu:

Nez Perce yana da manyan yaruka guda biyu, Upper da Lower. Sahaptin yana da bambancin ciki mafi girma, tare da manyan yarukansa sune Umatilla da Yakama.

Rarrabawar Noel Rude ta (2012) na Sahaptian kamar haka ne.


 Harshe na asali 
Aoki (1962) da Noel Rude (2006,  2012 ) sun gudanar da aiki a kan sake gina Proto-Sahaptian.

Harshen Proto-Sahaptian: :

 Bayanan littattafai 

 Aoki, Haruo. 1962. Nez Perce and Northern Sahaptin: A binary comparison. International Journal of American Linguistics 28(3). 172–182.
 Aoki, Haruo (1963). On Sahaptian-Klamath Linguistic Affiliations. International Journal of American Linguistics 29, no. 2: 107–112.
 Aoki, Haruo (1966). Nez Percé vowel harmony and proto-Sahaptian vowels. Language, 42, 759-767.
 Aoki, Haruo (1970). Nez Percé grammar. University of California publications in linguistics (Vol. 62). Berkeley: University of California Press. .
 Mithun, Marianne (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); .
 Rigsby, Bruce (1965). Continuity and change in Sahaptian vowel systems. International Journal of American Linguistics, 31, 306-311.
 Rigsby, Bruce; & Silverstein, Michael (1969). Nez Percé vowels and proto-Sahaptian vowel harmony. Language, 45, 45-59.
 Rude, Noel.  (2012). Reconstructing Proto-Sahaptian Sounds. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 32, pp. 292–324.  Papers for the Forty-seventh International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, August 3–5, 2012, edited by Joel Dunham, John Lyon & Natalie Weber.

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