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Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement? Corn-Related Vocabulary in Various Southeastern Languages Language familyWord (language)English translationProposed origin in Totozoquean family Muskogeantanchi' (Chickasaw); tanchi (Choctaw); vce ('uh-chi', Muscogee)cornno Iroquoianse-lu (Cherokee)cornno Caddoan-k'as- (Caddo)dried cornyes Chitimachak'asma (Chitimacha)cornyes In Caddo, a language from what is now the US Southeast, vocabulary pertaining to corn cultivation resembles equivalent vocabulary in the Totozoquean language family in Mexico. This resemblance is perhaps attributable to cultural contact: such words could have entered Caddo through the intermediary of the neighboring but unrelated Chitimacha language, concurrent with the dissemination of corn itself from Mexico into the Southeast after 700 CE. That the vocabulary pertaining to domestic crops accompanies them as they diffuse into new regions is an established phenomenon globally. Crops may also be decoupled from vocabulary altogether: corn cultivation became ubiquitous among the Southeastern tribes, yet ______.
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- 1words for corn in the languages of the Muskogean family evolved from a common root, with the Muscogee word having lost certain consonant sounds still present in the Chickasaw and Choctaw words.
- 2corn-related vocabulary underwent changes when entering other, unrelated languages, as can be seen by the divergence of the Caddo word from the Chitimacha word it originated in.
- 3the region is linguistically diverse, being home not only to Chitimacha and Caddo, but also to the Muskogean language family and to one Iroquoian language (Cherokee).
- 4the origins of vocabulary pertaining to the crop vary across languages in the region, with the words for corn in Cherokee and the Muskogean languages showing no demonstrable relationship to Totozoquean vocabulary.✓
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the origins of vocabulary pertaining to the crop vary across languages in the region, with the words for corn in Cherokee and the Muskogean languages showing no demonstrable relationship to Totozoquean vocabulary.
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