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This, for the most part, covers pseudo-accurately (because preciseness isn't my virtue) the areas where members of a respective language family are spoken and what's been deduced as the possible urheimat (homeland) of each language family according to linguistic data, which is where speakers of the proto-language congregated before spreading out and evolving separate languages derived from the proto-language. Some exceptions with regard to current academic census were made, primarily for the range of Iroquoian languages and the implication that some of the so-called language isolates of the Lower Mississippi Valley (namely Chitimacha and Ishak) are in fact related to Caddoan. For Iroquoian, that can be justified through the theory that there was likely a much larger area of Iroquoian language territory prior to the Columbian era, as Iroquoian languages were decimated by European contact as they were one of the first peoples encountered by French colonizers. Susquehannock is the one recorded piece of evidence that Iroquoian languages were spoken in a continuum from central Appalachia, to the coastal Carolinas, and to the St. Lawrence River basin. The lumping of Chitimacha and Ishak into Caddoan (dubbed Macro-Caddoan) is largely a product of my own linguistic scholarship on the languages and my personal belief that they're related, and that this relation extends further to culture, mythology, and material culture, and a southern migration of proto-Caddoan speakers from the listed urheimat of the Piney Woods isn't too far of a stretch to imagine. To conclude, here's a list of the listed urheimats and their geographic locations:

Iroquoian: North Central Appalachia
Muskogean: Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Caddoan: Piney Woods

Siouan: Missouri River Delta

Ohio Valley Siouan: Ohio River Valley
Algonquian: Inner Northwest
East Algonquian: Lake Michigan Basin

This was made using the map template by mdc01957: www.deviantart.com/mdc01957/ar…

Description

This, for the most part, covers pseudo-accurately (because preciseness isn't my virtue) the areas where members of a respective language family are spoken and what's been deduced as the possible urheimat (homeland) of each language family according to linguistic data, which is where speakers of the proto-language congregated before spreading out and evolving separate languages derived from the proto-language. Some exceptions with regard to current academic census were made, primarily for the range of Iroquoian languages and the implication that some of the so-called language isolates of the Lower Mississippi Valley (namely Chitimacha and Ishak) are in fact related to Caddoan. For Iroquoian, that can be justified through the theory that there was likely a much larger area of Iroquoian language territory prior to the Columbian era, as Iroquoian languages were decimated by European contact as they were one of the first peoples encountered by French colonizers. Susquehannock is the one recorded piece of evidence that Iroquoian languages were spoken in a continuum from central Appalachia, to the coastal Carolinas, and to the St. Lawrence River basin. The lumping of Chitimacha and Ishak into Caddoan (dubbed Macro-Caddoan) is largely a product of my own linguistic scholarship on the languages and my personal belief that they're related, and that this relation extends further to culture, mythology, and material culture, and a southern migration of proto-Caddoan speakers from the listed urheimat of the Piney Woods isn't too far of a stretch to imagine. To conclude, here's a list of the listed urheimats and their geographic locations:

Iroquoian: North Central Appalachia
Muskogean: Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Caddoan: Piney Woods

Siouan: Missouri River Delta

Ohio Valley Siouan: Ohio River Valley
Algonquian: Inner Northwest
East Algonquian: Lake Michigan Basin

This was made using the map template by mdc01957: www.deviantart.com/mdc01957/ar…