Witoto languages

The Witoto languages (also: Bora-Witoto languages ; named after the individual language Witoto / Huitoto ; English Witotoan ) are an indigenous South American language family that consists of six individual languages ​​with relatively few speakers.

structure

The ISO 639-3 code is given in square brackets :

• Bora group:
  • Bora [boa] (spoken by the Bora , approx. 2,800 speakers in Perú , Brazil and Colombia )
  • Muinane [bmr] (approx. 150 speakers in Colombia)
• Witoto group:
  • Actual Witoto (spoken by the Witoto ):
    • Minica Murui:
      • Huitoto, Minica [hto] (approx. 1,700 speakers in Colombia and Peru)
      • Huitoto, Murui [huu] (approx. 2,900 speakers in Perú and Colombia)
    • Nipode:
      • Huitoto, Nüpode [hux] (approx. 100 speakers in Perú)
  • Ocaina:
    • Ocaina [oca] (approx. 70 speakers in Perú and Colombia)

literature

• Wesley Thiesen: Gramática del idioma Bora. Ministerio de Educación, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (Perú), 1996 ( ZIP-compressed PDF file ).
• Mary Ruth Wise: Small language families and isolates in Peru. In: RMW Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 307-340.

Web links

• Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World: Witotoan (structure)
• PROEL, lenguas del mundo: sub-familia witoto (map)
• Wesley Thiesen, David J. Weber: A Grammar of Bora: With Special Attention to Tone . SIL International , 2012.