Axininca language
| Axininca | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru |
Native speakers | 4,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
cpc |
| Glottolog |
ajyi1238[2] |
Axininca (also Axininca Campa,[3] Ajyíninka Apurucayali, Campa, Ashaninca, Ashéninca Apurucayali, Apurucayali Campa, Ajyéninka) is an Arawakan language spoken along the Apurucayali tributary of the Pachitea River in Peru.
It has figured quite prominently in linguistic theory involving phonology (especially prosody including its stress) and morphology.
Demographics and language policy
There is 20% literacy in Ajyíninka Apurucayali and 30% literacy in Spanish, there is much bilingualism.
It is an official language.
Genealogical relations
The language is not mutually comprehensible with related Ashéninka Campa varieties.
Sounds
Consonants
Bilabial Apical Postalveolar
/PalatalVelar Placeless Plosives aspirated tʰ unaspirated p t k ʔ Affricates aspirated tsʰ tʃʰ unaspirated ts tʃ Fricatives s ç h Nasals m n ɲ N Liquids ɲ rʲ Glides β j p
Notes
- ↑ Axininca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ajyininka Apurucayali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ The name Campa is offensive.
Bibliography
- McCarthy, John. (1993). Prosodic morphology: Constraint interaction and satisfaction. (Online: roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=482).
- Payne, David. (1981). The phonology and morphology of Axininca Campa. Arlington, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. (Online: www.sil.org/acpub/repository/16298.pdf).
- Payne, David; Payne, Judith; & Santos, Jorge. (1982). Morfologia, fonologia, y fonetica del Asheninca del Apurucayali (Campa–Arawak Preandino). Yarinacoha, Peru: Ministry of Education, Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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