Chiriba language

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Chiriba
Native to Bolivia
Region Moxos Province
Extinct (date missing)
Panoan?
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Bolivian
        • Chiriba
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog chir1294

Chiriba (Chiriva) is a poorly attested language of Moxos Province, Bolivia which may have belonged to the Panoan family. All that was recorded of it was a list of seven words; several of these resemble Panoan languages, especially Pakawara, and none resemble other language families. Unattested Chumana is reported to have been related. [1]

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Vocabulary

Chíriva word list from the late 1790s published in Palau and Saiz (1989): [2] :170

Spanish glossEnglish glossChíriva
buenogoodsheoma
malobadbesoma
el padrefatherreomo
la madremotheryllquite
el hermanobrotherycoyo
unoonetevisí
dostwojorová

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References

  1. David Fleck, 2013, Panoan Languages and Linguistics, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99
  2. Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz. 1989. Moxos: Descripciones exactas e historia fiel de los indios, animales y plantas de la provincia de Moxos en el virreinato del Perú por Lázaro de Ribera, 1786-1794. Madrid: El Viso.