Piaroa language

Piaroa
De'aruwa
Native to Colombia and Venezuela
Ethnicity Piaroa people
Native speakers
 17,000 (2001–2002)[1]
Dialects
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
pid – Piaroa
wpc – Wirö (Maco)
Glottolog maco1238  Wirö + Piaroa[2]
piar1243  Piaroa[3]

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).[4]

Phonology

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
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
Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ~ɯ u
Mid e ɤ~o
Open æ ɑ~ɒ

[5]

References

  1. ↑ Piaroa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Wirö (Maco) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wirö + Piaroa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Piaroa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In Language Documentation & Conservation, v 4, p 183
  5. ↑ Mosonyi, Esteban E. (2002). Elementos De Gramática Piaroa: Algunas Consideraciones Sobre Sus Clases Nominales (PDF).


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