Shipibo language

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Shipibo-Conibo
Shipibo
[Non] joi
Pizarra de inicial en Bena Jema.JPG
Native to Peru
Region Ucayali Region
Ethnicity Shipibo-Conibo people
Native speakers
26,000 (2003) [1]
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Chama
        • Shipibo-Conibo
Dialects
  • Shipibo–Konibo
  • Kapanawa
  • ?Xipináwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
shp   Shipibo-Conibo
kaq   Tapiche Capanahua
xip   Xipináwa (retired)
Glottolog ship1253
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Shipibo (also Shipibo-Conibo, Shipibo-Konibo) is a Panoan language spoken in Peru and Brazil by approximately 26,000 speakers. Shipibo is a recognized indigenous language of Peru.

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Dialects

A Shipibo jar Shipibo jar (UBC-2010)a.jpg
A Shipibo jar

Shipibo has three attested dialects:

Extinct Xipináwa (Shipinawa) is thought to have been a dialect as well, [3] but there is no linguistic data.

Phonology

Vowels

Monophthongs of Shipibo, from Valenzuela, Marquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001:282) Shipibo monophthongs chart.svg
Monophthongs of Shipibo, from Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001 :282)
Monophthong phonemes [4]
Front Central Back
Close i ĩ i ɯ ɯ̃ e
Mid o õ o
Open a ã a

Nasal

  • The oral vowels /i,ɯ,o,a/ are phonetically nasalized [ĩ,ɯ̃,õ,ã] after a nasal consonant, but the phonological behaviour of these allophones is different from the nasal vowel phonemes /ĩ,ɯ̃,õ,ã/. [4]
  • Oral vowels in syllables preceding syllables with nasal vowels are realized as nasal, but not when a consonant other than /w,j/ intervenes. [6]

Unstressed

  • The second one of the two adjacent unstressed vowels is often deleted. [6]
  • Unstressed vowels may be devoiced or even elided between two voiceless obstruents. [6]

Consonants

Consonant phonemes [7]
Labial Dental/
Alveolar
Retroflex Palato-
alveolar
Dorsal Glottal
Nasal m m n n
Plosive p p t t k c/qu
Affricate ts ts ch
Fricative voiceless s s ʂ s̈h ʃ sh h j
voiced β b
Approximant w hu ɻ r j y

References

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