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'''Panare''' is a [[Cariban]] language, spoken by approximately 3,000–4,000 people in [[Bolivar State]] in southern [[Venezuela]]. Their main area is South of the town of Caicara del Orinoco, south of the [[Orinoco River]]. There are several subdialects of the language. The autonym for this language and people is ''eñapa'', which has various senses depending on context, including 'people', 'indigenous-people', and 'Panare-people'. The term "Panare" itself is a Tupí word that means "friend." <ref>Payne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 13.</ref> It is unusual in having [[object–verb–agent]] as one of its main word orders, the other being the more common [[verb–agent-object]]. It also displays the typologically "uncommon" property of an ergative–absolutive alignment in the present and a nominative–accusative alignment in the past. |
'''Panare''' is a [[Cariban]] language, spoken by approximately 3,000–4,000 people in [[Bolivar State]] in southern [[Venezuela]]. Their main area is South of the town of Caicara del Orinoco, south of the [[Orinoco River]]. There are several subdialects of the language. The autonym for this language and people is ''eñapa'', which has various senses depending on context, including 'people', 'indigenous-people', and 'Panare-people'. The term "Panare" itself is a Tupí word that means "friend." <ref>Payne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 13.</ref> It is unusual in having [[object–verb–agent]] as one of its main word orders, the other being the more common [[verb–agent-object]]. It also displays the typologically "uncommon" property of an ergative–absolutive alignment in the present and a nominative–accusative alignment in the past. |
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| Panare | |
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| E’ñapa Woromaipu | |
| Native to | Venezuela |
| Region | just south of the Orinoco River, Estado Bolívar |
| Ethnicity | Panare people |
Native speakers | 3,500 (2001 census)[1] |
Cariban
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pbh |
| Glottolog | enap1235 |
| ELP | Panare |
Panare is a Cariban language, spoken by approximately 3,000–4,000 people in Bolivar State in southern Venezuela. Their main area is South of the town of Caicara del Orinoco, south of the Orinoco River. There are several subdialects of the language. The autonym for this language and people is eñapa, which has various senses depending on context, including 'people', 'indigenous-people', and 'Panare-people'. The term "Panare" itself is a Tupí word that means "friend." [2] It is unusual in having object–verb–agent as one of its main word orders, the other being the more common verb–agent-object. It also displays the typologically "uncommon" property of an ergative–absolutive alignment in the present and a nominative–accusative alignment in the past.
References
- ^ Panare at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ Payne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 13.
Gildea, Spike. 1992. Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax: On the Genesis of Ergativity in Independent Clauses. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon. Henley, Paul. 1982. The Panare: Tradition and Change on the Amazonian Frontier. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. Payne, Thomas E. & Doris L. Payne. 2012. A typological grammar of Panare: A Cariban Language of Venezuela [Brill Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 5]. Leiden: Brill Publishing.
External links
- Abstract (in Spanish and English) of a paper on constituent order in Panare - LAS CORRELACIONES DE ORDEN EN PANARE, LENGUA OVS
Audio resources exist for this language at the University of Oregon Library. Thomas E. Payne and Doris L.Payne. 1989. Panare language sound recordings. [1]
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