Jarawara language
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| Jarawara | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Amazonas, Brazil | |
| Total speakers: | 155 | |
| Language family: | Arauan Jarawara |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sai | |
| ISO 639-3: | jap | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Jarawara (also Jaruara, Jaruára, Yarawara) is an Arauan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil by approximately 155 people.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː |
| Low | a aː | |
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | b | t | ɟ | k | (ʔ) | |
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | h̃ | |||
| Liquid | r | |||||
| Semivowel | w |
The glottal stop [ʔ] has a limited distribution.
The liquid /r/ may be realized as a trill [r], flap [ɾ], or lateral [l]. The palatal stop /ɟ/ may be realized as a semivowel [j].
The glottal fricative /h̃/ is nasalized. See rhinoglottophilia.
[edit] Bibliography
- Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (1995). "Fusional development of gender marking in Jarawara possessed nouns". International Journal of American Linguistics 61: 263–294.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2000). "A-constructions and O-constructions in Jarawara". International Journal of American Linguistics 66: 22–56.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2003). "The eclectic morphology of Jarawara, and the status of word", in R. M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Alkhenvald: Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2004). The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927067-8.
- Dixon, R. M. W.; Vogel, A. R. (1996). "Reduplication in Jarawara". Languages of the World 10: 24–31.
- Gordon, Ryamond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
- Kaufman, Terrence (1994). "The native languages of South America", in C. Mosley & R. E. Asher: Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge, 46–76.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue: Jaruára
- Proel: Lengua Jarawara
