Piaroa-Sáliba languages

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The Piaroa-Sáliba languages (also: Saliva-Piaroa-Sprachen , Engl. Saliban / Salivan languages ) are a small indigenous South American language family , which consists of the three individual languages Sáliba (also: Sáliva ), Piaroa and Maco .

structure

  • Sáliba [slc] (approx. 1,500 speakers in Colombia and Venezuela )
  • Piaroa Maco
    • Piaroa [pid] (approx. 12,000 in Venezuela and Colombia)
    • Maco [wpc] (approx. 2,500 in Venezuela)

(The language code according to ISO 639-3 is given in square brackets .)

literature

Sáliba:

  • Hortensia Estrada Ramírez: La lengua sáliba . Bogotá 1995.
  • María Matilde Suárez: La lengua sáliva . Caracas 1977.

Piaroa:

  • Hernán Feddema: Ensayo de gramática piaroa . Puerto Ayacucho 1966.
  • Pedro Krisólogo: Manual glotológico del idioma wo'tiheh . Caracas 1976. (name of the language)
  • Maurelena Remiro: Una gramática pedagógica-referencial de la lengua wótjüjä (piaroa) . Caracas 1988.

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