Saliban languages

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Saliban (also Sálivan, Piaroan) is a small language family of Colombia (northern llanos) and Venezuela.

Contents 1 Family division 2 Genetic relations 3 External links 4 Bibliography

[edit] Family division

Saliban consists of 2 distantly related languages:

1. Sáliba (a.k.a. Sáliva)

2. Piaroa-Maco (a.k.a. Piaroa, Piaroa-Mako, Deʼaruwa)

Sáliba was used by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century to communicate with indigenous peoples of the Meta, Orinoco, and Vichada valleys.

Piaroa-Maco consists of two dialects: Piaroa (a.k.a. Kuakua, Guagua, Quaqua) and Maco (a.k.a. Mako, Itoto, Wotuja, Jojod). Gordon (2005) lists these as separate languages.

[edit] Genetic relations

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[edit] External links

• Sáliba wordlist in Spanish & English with sound
• Ethnologue: Salivan
• PROEL: Familia Piaroa-Saliva

[edit] Bibliography

• Adelaar, Willem F. H.; & Muysken, Pieter C. (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press.
• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.