Chácobo_language

Chakobo language

Chakobo language

Panoan language

Chácobo-Pakawara is a Panoan language spoken by about 550 of 860 ethnic tribal Chácobo people of the Beni Department northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia, and (as of 2004) 17 of 50 Pakawara. Chácobo children are learning the language as a first language, but Pakawara is moribund.[2] Karipuna may have been a variant; alternative names are Jaunavô (Jau-Navo) and Éloe.[3]

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Several dormant and unattested languages were reported to have been related, perhaps dialects. These include Capuibo and Sinabo/Shinabo of the Mamoré River. However, nothing is actually known of these purported languages.[4]

Phonology

Consonants

More information Bilabial, Alveolar ...
  • Sounds /t͡ʃ, ʃ/ may also be heard as palatalized [t͡ʃʲ, ʃʲ] when before vowels in free variation.
  • /k/ may be heard as a voiced fricative [ɣ] when in between the positions of /ɨ/.
  • /t͡ʃ/ assimilates to a retroflex [t͡ʂ] when /ʂ/ is in the following syllable.
  • /n/ can be heard as [ɲ] as a realization of the sequence /ni/.

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...
  • /o/ may be heard as [u] when occurring within the environment of high vowels.[5]

Examples

[6]

Numerals

nicatsu 1
dafuira 2
unamarana 3
atchayuna 4
chayuna 5

Pronouns

hiasro I
miani you
zonihua he/she/it/they
noquirzo we
zunimato you (pl.)

Vocabulary

chii fire
huisruhuaina rain
jini water
mai earth
oriquiti food
osse moon
rsepo chicha
rsiqui maize
vari sun
vistima star

References

  1. [1]
    Chácobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Pakawara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Karipuna (confuses Jau-Navo with Kawahib) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    "BBC News".
  3. [3]
    Distinguish Karipuna language (Rondônia), a Tupian language, across the border in Brazil
  4. [4]
    David Fleck, 2013, Panoan Languages and Linguistics, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99
  5. [5]
    Tallman, Adam J. R. (2018). A Grammar of Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon. University of Texas at Austin.
  6. [6]
    Montaño Aragon, M. Guía etnográfica lingüística de Bolivia'' La Paz: Editorial Don Bosco, 1987
  • Tallman, Adam J. (2018). A grammar of Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon (Ph.D. thesis). The University of Texas at Austin. doi:10.26153/tsw/1343. hdl:2152/74212.


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