Sirionó language

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Sirionó (also Mbia Chee, Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi-Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 speakers (50 are monolingual) in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments) in the village of Ibiato (Eviato) and along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

Sirionó has phonemic contrasts between front, central, and back close and mid vowels, i.e.

Sirionó vowels
i ɨ u
e ə o
a


Additionally, all vowels have nasalized counterparts: /ĩ, ɨ̃, ũ, ẽ, ə̃, õ/.


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  • Firestone, Homer L. (1965). Description and classification of Sirionó. London: Mouton.
  • 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).
  • Homberg, Allan. (1958). The Sirionó. In J. Steward (Ed.), Handbook of South American Indians: The tropical forest tribes (Vol. 3, pp. 455-463. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Homberg, Allan. (1969). Nomads of the long bow: The Sirionó of Eastern Bolivia (rev. ed.). Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.
  • Ingham, John M. (1971). Are the Siriono raw or cooked? American Anthropologist, 73 (5), 1092-1099.
  • Priest, Perry N.; Priest, Anne M.; & Grimes, Joseph E. (1961). Simultaneous orderings in Sirionó (Guaraní). International Journal of American Linguistics, 27, 335-44.
  • Scheffler, Harold W. (1972). Systems of kin classification: A structural typology. In P. Reining (Ed.), Kinship studies in the Morgan centennial year (pp. 111-33). Washington, D.C.: Anthropological Society of Washington.
  • Scheffler, Harold W.; & Lounsbury, Floyd G. (1971). A study in structural semantics: The Sirionó kinship system. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
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