Hixkaryána
| Hixkaryána | ||
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Spoken in |
Amazonia , Brazil | |
| speaker | 600 (2000) | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
hix |
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Hixkaryána is a Carib language located on the Rio Nhamundá , Mapuera and Japatú , which are tributaries of the Amazon . The language has about 600 speakers. It was the first described language with the sentence order object-verb-subject .
Examples
ahakheno = [æhæk̭ːhunɔ] = my dead father
tamutho = [tæmutːhɔ] = grandfather
tonishá = one
sakó = two
sorowão = three
tamushi = man
wosy = woman
kamara = dog
toná = water
wuhritó = fire
toto = man
kamara = jaguar
Toto y-ahosɨ-ye kamara = The jaguar attacked the man.
Onà wyaro-tà amnyehra nehxakonà, Khoryenkom karyehtanà ywero, yaworono ywero-he = In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
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Hixkaryána is written in a Latin-based alphabet:
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| a | b | d | dy | e | f | H | ɨ | k | m | n | ny | O | p | r | ry | s | t | tx | u | w | x | y | |||
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| æ | b | d | ɟ | e | ɸ | H | ɯ | k | m | n | ɲ | ɔ | p | ɾ | ɽʲ | s | t | tʃ | u | w | ʃ | j | |||
Literacy
Only 30% to 60% of Hixkaryán speakers can write or read their language.
Literature in Hixkaryána
Portions of the Bible were translated in 1966. The entire New Testament was published ten years later.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert MW Dixon , Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 .
- ↑ Desmond C. Derbyshire: Hixkaryana and Linguistic Typology (= . Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 76). Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas TX 1985, ISBN 0-88312-082-8 .
- ^ Hixkaryána. At www.omniglot.com.
- ^ Hixkaryána. At www.omniglot.com.
- ^ Hixkaryána. At www.omniglot.com.