Piaroa language
| Piaroa | |
|---|---|
| De'aruwa | |
| Native to | Colombia and Venezuela |
| Ethnicity | Piaroa people |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2001–2002)[1] |
Piaroa–Saliban
| |
| Dialects |
|
| 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.
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).[2]
Phonology
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nor. | lab. | |||||||
| Stop | Plain | p | t | t͡ʃ~t͡s | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
| Aspirated | pʰ~ɸ | tʰ | kʰ | hˣʷ | hˣ | |||
| Ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | ||||
| Voiced | b~ˀb | d~ˀd | ||||||
| Affricate | 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) - ^ Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In Language Documentation & Conservation, v 4, p 183 [1]
 | This article related to the Indigenous languages of the Americas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This Colombia-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This Venezuela-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |