Panare language
| Panare | |
|---|---|
| E’ñapa Woromaipu | |
| Spoken in | Venezuela |
| Region | just south of the Orinoco River, Estado Bolívar |
| Native speakers | 3,000–4,000 (date missing) |
| Language family |
Cariban
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pbh |
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'. It is unusual in having object–verb–agent as one of its main word orders, the other being the more common agent–verb–object. It also displays the typologically "uncommon" property of an ergative–absolutive alignment in the present and a nominative–accusative alignment in the past.
[edit] References
Spike Gildea 1992 "Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax: On the Genesis of Ergativity in Independent Clauses." Paul Henley 1982 - "The Panare, Tradition and Change on the Amazonian Frontier"
[edit] External links
- Abstract (in Spanish and English) of a paper on constituent order in Panare - LAS CORRELACIONES DE ORDEN EN PANARE, LENGUA OVS
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