Sharanawa language

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Sharanawa
Sharanahua
Arara, Sharanahuan tsain
Native to Peru
EthnicitySharanawa
Native speakers
(450 cited 2000)
Dialects
  • Marinawa
  • Chandinawa
  • Mastanawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mcd
Glottolog shar1245

Sharanawa (Acre Arara) is a Panoan language of Peru. There are 200 Sharanawa (meaning 'good people') in Brazil, but only 3 speak the language. Its speakers call the language Arara. [1] The Mastanawa dialect may belong to either Sharanawa or Yaminawa, although the Mastanawa regarded their language to be identical with Sharanawa.

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Phonology

Consonants

Sharanawa consonants [2]
BilabialAlveolarPostalveolarRetroflexPalatalVelarGlottal
Stopptk
Affricatetstʃ
Fricativeɸsʃ2ʂ2h1
Nasalmn
Approximantjw
Tap/Flapɾ
  1. Pike and Scott (1962) indicate that [ h ] is velar.
  2. [ ʃ ] and [ ʂ ] are contrastive only when preceeding [ a ] or [ ã ]. [3]

Vowels

[2]
FrontCentralBack
plainnasalplainnasalplainnasal
Highiĩɨɨ̃uũ
Lowaã

Tone

Sharanawa is a tonal language. [2] It distinguishes high tone, marked with an acute accent, and low tone, which is unmarked. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "A Survey of the Languages of the Upper Purus River". www.sil.org.
  2. 1 2 3 Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Sharanawa language". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
  3. 1 2 Pike, Eunice; Scott, Eugene (1962-01-01). "The Phonological Hierarchy of Marinahua" . Phonetica. 8 (1–3): 1–8. doi:10.1159/000258115. ISSN   1423-0321.


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