Wainumá-Mariaté language

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Wainumá–Mariaté
Native to Brazil
Region Amazonas
Extinct after 1851
Arawakan
Dialects
  • Wainumá
  • Mariaté
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
qtj Wainumá
  qtw Mariaté
Glottolog uain1239

Wainumá (Wainambu, Wainambɨ [1] ) and Mariaté are dialects of an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language.

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Classification

Kaufman (1994) placed them in his Wainumá branch, [2] but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999). [3] It is placed in the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019). [4]

Word lists

Word lists of Wainumá have been collected by: [5]

A word list of Mariaté was recorded by Spix and Martius in 1820.

Wainumá vocabulary [7]
WainumáGlossWainumáGloss
pipinaabeasnioho, eroânyhêneryavus
eidirikenoaegrotonoiracká, tschaberaka uhnybibo
amáhrăĭ-ápeaërnucotanahbihtabellum genere
késiadepsmísarebonus, a, um

References

  1. Ramirez, Henri (2020). Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados. Vol. 3 (1 ed.). Curitiba: Editora CRV. doi:10.24824/978652510234.4. ISBN   978-65-251-0234-4.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-01925-5.
  3. Aikhenvald, Alexandra (1999). "The Arawak language family". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Aikhenvald, Alexandra (eds.). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-57021-3.
  4. 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.
  5. Ramirez, Henri (2020). Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados. Vol. 4 (1 ed.). Curitiba: Editora CRV. doi:10.24824/978652510231.3. ISBN   978-65-251-0231-3.
  6. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1853). A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro [1848-1852]. Londres ; Nova Iorque.
  7. Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp von (1867). Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika's zumal Brasiliens: 1. Zur Ethnographie: Volume 2. Cambridge library collection. Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-511-70459-8.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)