Guanano language
| Guanano | ||||
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| Spoken in | Brazil, Colombia | |||
| Native speakers | 1000 (date missing) | |||
| Language family |
Tucanoan
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| ISO 639-3 | gvc | |||
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Guanano (also Wanano) is a Tucanoan language spoken in the northwest part of Amazonas in Brazil and in Vaupés in Colombia.
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[edit] Classification
Guanano belongs to the Northern branch of the Eastern Tucanoan languages, along with Arapaso, Piratapuyo, and Tucano.
[edit] Geographic distribution
Speakers of Wanano live in Brazil and Colombia. According to Stenzel (2004), a census taken in October, 2003 establishes the Wanano population as 1,560, approximately one-third of whom currently live in Brazil . The Wanano live in 21 traditional communities along the Vaupés River.
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palato alveolar |
Velar | Glottal | ||||||
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| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ʔ | |||
| Affricate | tʃ | |||||||||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||||
| Flap | r | |||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||||
Nasalization is carried on vowels. Voiced plosives and /j/ may surface as the nasal consonants /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, and /ɲ/ in the environment of nasal vowels.
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Low | e | a | o |
[edit] Suprasegmental Elements
Syllables may be marked with either a high or low stress accent. Nasalization is suprasegmental moves from left to right through a word.
[edit] Grammar
Guanano is an SOV language.
[edit] Vocabulary
[edit] Personal Pronouns
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Person Exclusive | /yɨɨ́/ [yɨˈʔɨ] "I" | /sã́/ [ˈsã] "we (and not you)" |
| 1st Person Inclusive | /bãrĩ́/ [mãˈňĩ] "we (and you)" | |
| 2nd Person | /bɨ̃ɨ̃́/ [mɨ̃ˈʔɨ̃] "you" | /bɨ̃sã́/ [mɨ̃ɨ̥̃ˈsã] "you" |
| 3rd Person Masculine | /tíro/ [ˈtiro] "he" | /tídã/ [ˈtinã] "they" |
| 3rd Person Feminine | /tí-koro/ [ˈtikoro] "she" |
[edit] References
- Guanano language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Stenzel, Kristine (2004). A Reference grammar of Wanano. Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado.
- Waltz, Nathan E. (April 2002). "Innovations in Wanano (Eastern Tucanoan) When Compared to Piratapuyo". International Journal of American Linguistics 68 (2): 157–215. doi:10.1086/466485.
