Sirionó language
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| Sirionó | |
|---|---|
| Mbia cheë | |
| Native to | Bolivia |
| Region | Beni Department, Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia) |
| Ethnicity | Sirionó people, Yuqui people |
Native speakers | 300 (2012)[1] |
Tupian
| |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Bolivia |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:srq – Sirionóyuq – Yuqui (Yúki)jor – Jorá (Hora)† |
| Glottolog | siri1279 Siriono–Jorayuqu1240 Yuqui |
| ELP | Sirionó |
| Yuki[2] | |
Sirionó (Mbia Cheë;[3] also written as Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 Sirionó people (50 are monolingual) and 120 Yuqui in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments) in the village of Ibiato (Eviato) and along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.
Phonology
[edit]Sirionó has phonemic contrasts between front, central, and back, close and mid vowels, i.e.
| i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| e ẽ | ə ə̃ | o õ |
| a ã |
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-Alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | c | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | ||||||
| Continuant | s | ʃ | j | w | h | ||
| Trill | r | ||||||
Notes
[edit]- ^ Sirionó at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Yuqui (Yúki) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Jorá (Hora)† at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Yuki.
- ^ Gasparini, Noé; Dicarere Mendez, Victor Hugo (2015). Diccionario sirionó: sirionó - castellano - inglés y castellano - sirionó (PDF). Trinidad, Bolivia: Editorial Tiempos del Beni.
References
[edit]- Firestone, Homer L. (1965). Description and Classification of Sirionó. London: Mouton.
- Holmberg, Allan. (1958). The Sirionó. In J. Steward (Ed.), Handbook of South American Indians: The Tropical Forest Tribes (Vol. 3, pp. 455–463. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Holmberg, Allan. (1969). Nomads of the Long Bow: The Sirionó of Eastern Bolivia (rev. ed.). Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.
- Ingham, John M. (1971). Are the Siriono Raw or Cooked? American Anthropologist, 73 (5), 1092-1099.
- Priest, Perry N.; Priest, Anne M.; & Grimes, Joseph E. (1961). Simultaneous Orderings in Sirionó (Guaraní). International Journal of American Linguistics, 27, 335-44.
- Scheffler, Harold W. (1972). Systems of Kin Classification: A Structural Typology. In P. Reining (Ed.), Kinship Studies in the Morgan Centennial Year (pp. 111–33). Washington, D.C.: Anthropological Society of Washington.
- Scheffler, Harold W.; & Lounsbury, Floyd G. (1971). A Study in Structural Semantics: The Sirionó Kinship System. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
External links
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For a list of words relating to Sirionó language, see the Sirionó language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Sirionó dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
- PROEL: Lengua Sirionó
- Language Museum: Sirionó (bible translation)
- Environment, Culture, and Sirionó Plant Names
- Lenguas de Bolivia (online edition)
- Sirionó (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
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