Terêna language

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Terêna
Etelena
Native to Brazil
Region Mato Grosso do Sul
Ethnicity Terena people
Native speakers
16,000 (2006) [1]
Arawakan
  • Southern
    • Bolivia–Parana
      • Terêna
Language codes
ISO 639-2 ter
ISO 639-3 Variously:
ter  – Terena
gqn  –  Kinikinao & Guaná
caj  –  Chané
Glottolog tere1279
ELP Terena
  Guana (Brazil) [2]

Terêna or Etelena is spoken by 15,000 Brazilians. The language has a dictionary and written grammar. [3] Many Terena people have low Portuguese proficiency. It is spoken in Mato Grosso do Sul. About 20% are literate in their language, 80% literate in Portuguese.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Terêna has an active–stative syntax [4] and verb-object-subject as default word order. [5]

Varieties

Terêna had four varieties: Kinikinao, Terena proper, Guaná, and Chané. These varieties have sometimes been considered to be separate languages. [6] Carvalho (2016) has since demonstrated all four to be the same language. [7] Only Terena proper is still spoken.

Language contact

Terena originated in the Northwestern Chaco. [8] As a result, many Northern Guaicuruan loanwords can be found in Terena. [9]

There are also many Tupi-Guarani loanwords in Terena and other southern Arawakan languages. [10]

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t ( tʃ ) k ʔ
prenasal ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ
Fricative voiceless s ʃ h
prenasal ⁿz ⁿʒ
Nasal m n ( ɲ )
Tap ɾ
Lateral l ( ʎ )
Approximant w ~ v j

/w, ʃ, n, l/ may often be heard as [v, tʃ, ɲ, ʎ]. [11]

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i ĩ iː ( ɨ ) u ũ uː
Mid e ẽ eː o õ oː
ɛ ɛː ɔ ɔː
Low a ã aː

[ɨ] is heard as an allophone of /i/. [12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Terena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kinikinao & Guaná at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Chané at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Endangered Languages Project data for Guana (Brazil).
  3. ↑ Butler, Nancy Evelyn; Ekdahl, Elizabeth Muriel (1979). Aprenda Terêna, Vol. 1 (in Portuguese). Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. ↑ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
  5. ↑ Rosa, Andréa (2010). Aspectos morfológicos do terena (Aruák) (PDF). pp. 71–72. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-05-13. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  6. ↑ Aikhenvald 1999
  7. ↑ Carvalho, Fernando (2016-03-10). "Terena, Chané, Guaná and Kinikinau are one and the same language:: setting the record straight on southern Arawak linguistic diversity". LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas (in Portuguese). 16 (1): 39–57. doi: 10.20396/liames.v16i1.8646165 . ISSN   2177-7160.
  8. ↑ Carvalho, Fernando O. de. 2020. Etymology meets ethnohistory: Linguistic evidence for the pre-historic origin of the Guaná-Chané in the Northwestern Chaco. Anthropological Linguistics.
  9. ↑ Carvalho, Fernando O. de. 2018. "Arawakan-Guaicuruan Language Contact in The South American Chaco Archived 2023-06-13 at the Wayback Machine ." International Journal of American Linguistics 84, no. 2 (April 2018): 243-263. doi : 10.1086/696198
  10. ↑ Carvalho, Fernando O. de. Tupi-Guarani Loanwords in Southern Arawak: Taking Contact Etymologies Seriously Archived 2023-06-13 at the Wayback Machine .
  11. ↑ Silva, Denise (2013). Estudo Lexicografico da Lingua Terena. Araraquara: Universidade estadual paulista julio de mesquita filho.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  12. ↑ Nascimento, Gardênia (2012). Aspectos Gramaticais da Língua Terena. Belo Horizonte: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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