Piaroa language
Appearance
Piaroa | |
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De'aruwa | |
Native to | Colombia and Venezuela |
Ethnicity | Piaroa people |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2001–2002)[1] |
Piaroa–Saliban
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Dialects |
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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 | |||
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nor. | lab. | |||||||
Stop | Plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||
Aspirated | pʰ~ɸ | tʰ | kʰ | hˣʷ | hˣ | |||
Ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | ||||
Glottal | ˀb | ˀd | ||||||
Affricate | Plain | t͡ʃ~t͡s | ||||||
Aspirated | t͡sʰ | |||||||
Ejective | t͡sʼ | |||||||
Fricative | s | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||
Flap/Lateral | ɾ | ʎ | ||||||
Approximant | w | j~dʲ |
Front | Central | Back | |
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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]
- ^ Mosonyi, Esteban E. (2002). Elementos De Gramática Piaroa: Algunas Consideraciones Sobre Sus Clases Nominales (PDF).