Chocó languages

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The Chocó languages (also Chokó or English: Chocoan ) are a small indigenous American language family from South America , which is widespread in Panama and Colombia . It comprises twelve languages ​​spoken by 60,000 to 120,000 people. Some of the dialects are incomprehensible to speakers of the other.

Antonio Tovar as well as Paul Rivet and the Czechoslovak linguist Čestmír Loukotka (1950) count the Chocó languages ​​as one of the Caribbean languages or see a relationship to them. Joseph Greenberg considers them to be relatives of the Paez . This position now seems to have prevailed. According to Daniel Aguirre (2006), however, the Chocó languages ​​form a family of their own.

structure

  • Embera: (with up to 110,000 speakers)
    • Northern group:
      • Emberá-Catío [cto]
      • Emberá, northern [emp] (also "Emberá of Darién )"
    • Southern group:
      • Emberá-Baudó [bdc]
      • Emberá-Chamí [cmi]
      • Epena [sja]
      • Emberá-Tadó [tdc]
  • Anserma [ans] (extinguished)
  • Arma [aoh] (not proven, probably extinguished)
  • Caramanta [crf] (an extinct dialect of Anserma)
  • Cauca [cca]
  • Runa [rna]
  • Woun Meu [noa] (also: Noanamá) with 6-11,000 speakers

literature

  • Daniel Aguirre: “Choco languages” . In: Keith Brown (Ed.): The encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 2nd edition, vol. 2. Elsevier 2006, pp. 367-381.
  • Joseph H. Greenberg: Language in the Americas . Stanford: Stanford University Press 1987.
  • Phillip Lee Harms: Epena Pedee syntax (= Studies in the Languages ​​of Colombia. 4 = Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields. 118). University of Texas at Arlington et al., Arlington TX et al. 1994, ISBN 0-88312-276-6 .
  • Paul Rivet, Čestmir Loukotka: Langues d'Amêrique du sud et des Antilles. In: A. Meillet, M. Cohen (Eds.): Les langues du monde , vol. 2, Paris: Champion 1950.

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