Arawá languages

The Arawá languages (named after the individual language Arawá ; English Arauan ) are an indigenous South American language family consisting of six individual languages ​​with relatively few speakers (the ISO 639-3 code is given in square brackets ):

• Paumarí [pad] (approx. 200 speakers, ethnic population approx. 600)
• Madi; falls into three dialects:
  • Jarawara (also: Jaruára) [jap] (approx. 150 speakers)
  • Jamamadí [jaa] (approx. 190 speakers)
  • Banawá [bnh] (approx. 80 speakers)
• Sorowahá (also: Suruahá ) [swx] (approx. 100 speakers)
• Dení-Kulina:
  • Dení [dny] (approx. 1,000 speakers)
  • Kulína (also: Culina, Madiha / Madija) [cul] (approx. 2,500 speakers)
• Arawá (also: Arua) [aru] (extinct since about 1880)

All these languages ​​are native to Brazil , only the Kulina is spoken in Perú .

annotation

The Arawá languages ​​are not to be confused with the Arawak languages .

literature

• Robert MW Dixon : Arawá. In: Robert MW Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 292-306.
• Robert MW Dixon: The Jarawara language of southern Amazonia. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2004, ISBN 0-19-927067-8 .

Web links

• Jamamadi. In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages ​​of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.