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Corn-Related Vocabulary in Various Southeastern LanguagesLanguage family Word (language) English translation Proposed origin in vocabulary of the Totozoquean language family Muskogean tanchi’ (Chickasaw); tanchi (Choctaw); vce (Muscogee, pronounced “uh-chi”) corn no Iroquoian se-lu (Cherokee) corn no Caddoan -k’as- (Caddo) dried corn yes Chitimacha k’asma (Chitimacha) corn yes
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 ______blank
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?