Download or read book Proto-Wintun written by Alice Shepherd and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a reconstruction of Proto-Wintun, the parent language of a group of California Indian languages. It includes a grammatical sketch of Proto-Wintun, cognate sets with reconstructions and an index to the reconstructions. The book fulfills a need for in-depth reconstructions of proto-languages for California Indian language families, both for theoretical purposes and deeper comparison with other proto- or pre-languages.