Jarawara dialect
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| Jarawara | ||||
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| Spoken in | Amazonas, Brazil | |||
| Native speakers | 155 (date missing) | |||
| Language family |
Arauan
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| Writing system | Latin | |||
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| ISO 639-3 | jap | |||
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Jarawara (also Jaruara, Jaruára, Yarawara) is a dialect of Madi, an Arauan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil. Jarawara is spoken by approximately 155 people.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː |
| Low | a aː | |
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | t | ɟ | k | (ʔ) | |
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | h̃ | |||
| Liquid | r | |||||
| Semivowel | w |
The glottal stop [ʔ] has a limited distribution.
The liquid /r/ may be realized as a trill [r], flap [ɾ], or lateral [l]. The palatal stop /ɟ/ may be realized as a semivowel [j].
The glottal fricative /h̃/ is nasalized. See rhinoglottophilia.
[edit] Bibliography
- Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (1995). "Fusional development of gender marking in Jarawara possessed nouns". International Journal of American Linguistics 61: 263–294. doi:10.1086/466256.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2000). "A-constructions and O-constructions in Jarawara". International Journal of American Linguistics 66: 22–56. doi:10.1086/466405.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2003). "The eclectic morphology of Jarawara, and the status of word". In R. M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Alkhenvald. Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2004). The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927067-8.
- Dixon, R. M. W.; Vogel, A. R. (1996). "Reduplication in Jarawara". Languages of the World 10: 24–31.
- Gordon, Ryamond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Fifteenth ed.). Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/.
- Kaufman, Terrence (1994). "The native languages of South America". In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher. Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. pp. 46–76.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue: Jaruára
- Proel: Lengua Jarawara
