Pará Arára language
| Arára | |
|---|---|
| Pará Arára | |
| Parirí | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Ethnicity | Arara people |
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Native speakers
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340 (2010)[1] |
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Cariban
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aap |
| Glottolog | para1310[2] |
Arára is a Cariban language of Pará, Brazil.
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Area[edit]
The language is spoken by a people who includes tribes still uncontacted. They live mainly in three villages: Cachoeira Seca, Laranjal and Maia. However, the natives of the latter have switched to Portuguese, while 85 speakers still remain in Cachoeira Seca and 250 in Laranjal.
Animal talk[edit]
Linguist Isaac Costa de Souza studied the language and concluded some words were modified when used to talk to different animals.[3] The table below shows some modified words used when speaking to a capuchin monkey.
| Normal word | Capuchin word | English gloss |
|---|---|---|
| ɔɛt | ɔɛgɛt | rubber tree |
| aɛ | aɛge | wasp |
| ikpa | ikpaga | mud |
| kuɾi | kuligi | bead |
| kɔk | kɔgɔk | night, evening |
| nu | nugu | tumour, abscess |
| paɾu | palugu | water |
Different modifications are used according to the species of animal being addressed. The word ikpa, for example, might be modified as tɔkpa when addressing a dog, or as ĩkpã when addressing a howler monkey. Specific modifications may be used when talking to woodpeckers, tortoises, and coatis, among other animals.
References[edit]
- ^ Arára at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Para Arara". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Isaac Costa de Souza, 2010, A Phonological Description of "Pet Talk" in Arara, M.A. thesis, University of North Dakota.
External links[edit]
- Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Arára, Pará". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
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