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Revision as of 17:04, 18 October 2020
| Piaroa | |
|---|---|
| De'aruwa | |
| Native to | Colombia and Venezuela |
| Ethnicity | Piaroa people |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2001–2002)[1] |
Piaroa–Saliban
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| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:pid – Piaroawpc – Wirö (Maco) |
| Glottolog | maco1238 Wirö + Piaroapiar1243 Piaroa |
| ELP | Piaroa |
Piaroa (also called Guagua ~ Kuakua ~ Quaqua, Adole ~ Ature, Wo’tiheh) is an indigenous language of Colombia and Venezuela, native to the Piaroa people. Loukotka (1968) reports that it is spoken along the Sipapo River, Orinoco River, and Ventuari River.[2]
A Wirö language (commonly called Maco) is sometimes listed separately, or left unclassified. It is very poorly attested, but the few words which are known are enough to show it is a dialect of Piaroa, or at least very closely related (Hammarström 2010).[3]
The unattested extinct Ature language was once spoken on the Orinoco River near the waterfalls of Atures, Venezuela. It is not known whether Ature is related.[2]
Phonology
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nor. | lab. | |||||||
| Stop | Plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||
| Aspirated | pʰ~ɸ | tʰ | kʰ | hˣʷ | hˣ | |||
| Ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | ||||
| Glottal | ˀb | ˀd | ||||||
| Affricate | Plain | t͡ʃ~t͡s | ||||||
| Aspirated | t͡sʰ | |||||||
| Ejective | t͡sʼ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Flap/Lateral | ɾ | ʎ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j~dʲ | ||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ~ɯ | u |
| Mid | e | ɤ~o | |
| Open | æ | ɑ~ɒ |
References
- ^ Piaroa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Wirö (Maco) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ a b Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- ^ Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In Language Documentation & Conservation, v 4, p 183 [1]
- ^ Mosonyi, Esteban E. (2002). Elementos De Gramática Piaroa: Algunas Consideraciones Sobre Sus Clases Nominales (PDF).
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