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===Exonym=== | ===Exonym=== | ||
The English exonym ''Tumachee'' has an origin in the language of the now extinct Jikiha(Tumachee: ''Gzîkka'') tribe, who were the first members of the Sleeping Bull Confederacy to interact with British colonisers. The Jikiha exchanged information on the other tribes and peoples in Sleeping Bull, and probably referred to the Tumachee people as ''*tú(ð)máki'', which is a plural form of ''*tú(ð)mág'', which was then loaned into English as initially ''Toumacke'' or ''Tumacki'' and then finally into ''Tumachee''. | The English exonym ''Tumachee'' has an origin in the language of the now extinct Jikiha(Tumachee: ''Gzîkka'') tribe, who were the first members of the Sleeping Bull Confederacy to interact with British colonisers. The Jikiha exchanged information on the other tribes and peoples in Sleeping Bull, and probably referred to the Tumachee people as ''*tú(ð)máki'', which is a plural form of ''*tú(ð)mág'', which was then loaned into English as initially ''Toumacke'' or ''Tumacki'' and then finally into ''Tumachee''. | ||
==History== | |||
Proto-Tumachic, the reconstructed ancestor of the two Tumachic languages, emerged around 600-700 years ago in modern-day Utah. Around 400 years ago, small populations that would eventually become the Tumachee would migrate west to the He-who-uses-the-loom River Basin, where they would settle in the lowland areas, as opposed to their distant mountain cousins in Utah, the Gzuwê. | |||
===Sleeping Bull Confederacy=== | |||
Around 200 years ago, | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||