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{{Short description|Moribund language of Bolivia}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Itonama
| nativename = ''sihni pandara''
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|ethnicity={{sigfig|2,940|2}} (2006)<ref name=e18/>▼
| region = [[Beni Department]]
|speakers=5▼
|date=2007▼
|ref=e18▼
|familycolor=American▼
|family=[[Language isolate]]▼
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|script=[[Latin script|Latin]]▼
▲| family = [[Language isolate]]
|iso3=ito▼
▲| script = [[Latin script|Latin]]
|glotto=iton1250▼
| nation = {{flag|Bolivia}}
|glottorefname=Itonama▼
▲| iso3 = ito
|notice=IPA▼
▲| glotto = iton1250
▲| glottorefname = Itonama
| map2 = Lang Status 20-CR.svg
| mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Itonama is classified as Critically Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] [[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]}}}}
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'''Itonama''' is a [[moribund language|moribund]] or extinct [[language isolate]] once spoken by the [[Itonama people]] in the Amazonian lowlands of north-eastern [[Bolivia]].
In [[Magdalena, Beni|Magdalena]] town on the western bank of the Itonama River (a tributary of the [[Iténez River]]), located in [[Iténez Province]], only a few elderly people remember a few words and phrases.<ref name="Amazonian isolates 1">{{cite book |editor-last=Epps |editor-first=Patience |editor-last2=Michael |editor-first2=Lev |title=Amazonian Languages: Language Isolates. Volume I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Chapra |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |location=Berlin |date=2023 |isbn=978-3-11-041940-5}}</ref>{{rp|483}}
==Language contact==
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the [[Nambikwaran languages]] due to contact.<ref name="Jolkesky-2016">{{cite thesis|last=Jolkesky |first=Marcelo Pinho de Valhery |date=2016 |url=http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica |title=Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas |type=Ph.D. dissertation |location=Brasília |publisher=University of Brasília |edition=2}}</ref>
An automated computational analysis ([[Automated Similarity Judgment Program|ASJP]] 4) by Müller et al. (2013)<ref name="ASJP-4">Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ''[https://asjp.clld.org/static/WorldLanguageTree-004.zip ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)]''.</ref> found lexical similarities between Itonama and [[Movima language|Movima]], likely due to contact.
==Phonology==
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The postalveolar affricates {{IPA|/tʃ tʃʼ/}} have alveolar allophones {{IPA|[ts tsʼ]}}. Variation occurs between speakers, and even within the speech of a single person.
The semivowel {{IPA|/w/}} is realized as a [[voiced bilabial fricative|bilabial fricative]] {{
== Morphology ==
Itonama is a [[polysynthetic]], head-marking, verb-initial language with an accusative alignment system along with an inverse subsystem in independent clauses, and straightforward accusative alignment in dependent clauses.
Nominal morphology lacks case declension and adpositions and so is simpler than verbal morphology (which has body-part and location incorporation, directionals, evidentials, verbal classifiers, among others).<ref>{{cite book |title= Who did what to whom in Magdalena |last= Crevels |first= M
==Vocabulary==
[[Čestmír Loukotka|Loukotka]] (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Itonama.<ref name="Loukotka"
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*[[Llanos de Moxos (archaeology)]]
*[[Macro-Paesan languages]]
==Further reading==
*Camp, E. L.; Liccardi, M. R. (1967). Itonama, castellano e inglés. (Vocabularios Bolivianos, 6.) Riberalta: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
==References==
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[[Category:Critically endangered languages]]
[[Category:Language isolates of South America]]
[[Category:Macro-Paesan languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Bolivia]]
[[Category:Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area]]
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Latest revision as of 19:58, 25 May 2023
Itonama | |
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sihni pandara | |
Native to | Bolivia |
Region | Beni Department |
Ethnicity | 2,900 (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 1 (2012)[1] |
Latin | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Bolivia |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ito |
Glottolog | iton1250 |
ELP | Itonama |
Itonama is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Itonama is a moribund or extinct language isolate once spoken by the Itonama people in the Amazonian lowlands of north-eastern Bolivia. It was spoken on the Itonomas River and Lake[2] in Beni Department.
In Magdalena town on the western bank of the Itonama River (a tributary of the Iténez River), located in Iténez Province, only a few elderly people remember a few words and phrases.[3]: 483
Language contact[edit]
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Nambikwaran languages due to contact.[4]
An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)[5] found lexical similarities between Itonama and Movima, likely due to contact.
Phonology[edit]
Vowels[edit]
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
Diphthongs: /ai au/.
Consonants[edit]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | |||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
plain | p | t | tʃ | tʲ | k | ʔ |
ejective | tʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | ||||
voiced | b | d | |||||
Fricative | s | h | |||||
Liquid | lateral | l | |||||
rhotic | ɾ | ||||||
Semivowel | w | j |
The postalveolar affricates /tʃ tʃʼ/ have alveolar allophones [ts tsʼ]. Variation occurs between speakers, and even within the speech of a single person.
The semivowel /w/ is realized as a bilabial fricative [β] when preceded and followed by identical vowels.
Morphology[edit]
Itonama is a polysynthetic, head-marking, verb-initial language with an accusative alignment system along with an inverse subsystem in independent clauses, and straightforward accusative alignment in dependent clauses.
Nominal morphology lacks case declension and adpositions and so is simpler than verbal morphology (which has body-part and location incorporation, directionals, evidentials, verbal classifiers, among others).[6]
Vocabulary[edit]
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Itonama.[2]
gloss Itonama one chash-káni two chash-chupa tooth huomóte tongue páchosníla hand mapára woman ubíka water huanúhue fire ubári moon chakakáshka maize udáme jaguar ótgu house úku
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Camp, E. L.; Liccardi, M. R. (1967). Itonama, castellano e inglés. (Vocabularios Bolivianos, 6.) Riberalta: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Itonama at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- ^ Epps, Patience; Michael, Lev, eds. (2023). Amazonian Languages: Language Isolates. Volume I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Chapra. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-041940-5.
- ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília.
- ^ Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013).
- ^ Crevels, M. Who did what to whom in Magdalena. p. 3.
- Crevels, Mily (2002). "Itonama o Sihnipadara, Lengua no clasificada de la Amazonía Boliviana" (PDF). Estudios de Lingüística (in Spanish). 16.
External links[edit]
- Sample of Itonama fragment
- Lenguas de Bolivia (online edition)
- Itonama (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)