Anauyá language

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Anauyá
Native to Venezuela
Region Amazonas
Extinct (date missing)
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
qjb
Glottolog anau1243

Anauyá is an extinct, poorly attested and unclassified Arawakan language of Venezuela, originally spoken on the Castaña River in Amazonas. [2] Its only documentation comes from a 1928 book. [3]

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Classification

Kaufman (1994) placed it in his Wainumá branch, [4] but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999). [5] It is classified as a member of the Río Negro group by Ramirez and França (2019). [6]

Vocabulary

Anauyá vocabulary [2]
glossAnauyáglossAnauyá
handnun-kapimy plantationnun-kaniká-sirra
eyenun-hinihahymy housenun-hána
headnun-húidayour househi-ána
hairnun-huíssihincanoeide
earnun-tašihinoaršanahurri
nosenun-hírripeoplease
mouthnun-umastoneyahôko
tonguena-nenewoodada
legnun-sarráicottonkanarisi
thighnun-hôninthreadkanari
footnú-nitiknifeharrohorri
kneenun-édorroaxečífara
armnun-kanobananaparána
bonenun-korokorô-nipotorîso
necknun-orrifishundrrimani
beardnun-sanumajaguaršaáui
toothná-idatapiršurauirri
eyebrowsnau-itâmewild pigaíša
eyelashesnau-isêrrisheepuahika
rainyánaui1ahiari
dogonimináu2mahôrene
houseahirri3marahurraka
mountainhadásí4arrimâhi
riveruni5akayuhaka
watergreen woodpeckerserrierri
fireríkárrichili pepperatido
tobaccosierrowomaninanaí
redmitsaiboyyanênaui
maniockamikásiold personkoinašôa

References

  1. ↑ Bradley, David; Campbell, Lyle; Comrie, Bernard; Goddard, Ives; Golla, Victor; Irvine, Arthur; Kaufman, Terrence; Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Mithun, Marianne (2007), Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher (eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (2nd ed.), London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN   978-0-415-31074-1 , retrieved 2025-01-01
  2. 1 2 Loukotka, Čestmír (1963). "Documents et vocabulaires inédits de langues et de dialectes sud-américains". Journal de la société des américanistes. 52 (1): 7–60. doi:10.3406/jsa.1963.2001.
  3. ↑ Cerqueira, Dionísio (1928). Reminiscencias da fronteira, com prefacio e onze retratos. Rio de Janeiro: F. Briguiet & cia.
  4. ↑ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Tait, Mary (1994), Atlas of the world's languages, London ; New York: Routledge, ISBN   978-0-415-01925-5
  5. ↑ Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-57021-3.
  6. ↑ Ramirez, Henri; França, Maria Cristina Victorino de (2019-09-23). "Línguas Arawak da Bolívia". LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas. 19: e019012. doi:10.20396/liames.v19i0.8655045. ISSN   2177-7160.


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