Jívaro languages
The Jívaro languages ( English Jivaroan ) are an indigenous American language family from South America that consists of only four languages (the ISO 639-3 code is given in square brackets ):
- Achuar-Shiwiar [acu] (approx. 5,000 speakers in Peru and Ecuador )
- Aguaruna [agr] (own name: Aénts chícham; approx. 38,000 speakers in Peru)
- Huambisa [hub] (approx. 9,000 speakers in Peru)
- Shuar [jiv] (own name: Shuar chicham; approx. 47,000 speakers in Ecuador)
The Jívaro languages have the basic word order subject-object-verb (SOV).
Personal pronouns
The personal pronouns of the Aguaruna are as follows (after Fast / Larson 1974):
| I | wi |
| you | ámẽ |
| he, she, it (present) | ouch |
| he, she, it (absent) | nii |
| we | ii (jutí) |
| her | átum |
| she | díta |
See also
swell
- Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1993, ISBN 3-476-00937-8 .
literature
- Angel Corbera Mori: Fonologia e gramática do Aguaruna. Dissertation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 1994.
- Gerhard Fast, Ruby Fast: Introducción al idioma achuar (= Instituto Lingüistico de Verano. Documento de trabajo. No. 20, ISSN 1022-1522 ). Ministerio de Educación - Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, Yarinacocha et al. 1981.
- Gerhard Fast, Mildred L. Larson: Introducción al idioma aguaruna (= Instituto Lingüistico de Verano. Documento de trabajo. No. 3). Ministerio de Educación - Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, Lima 1974.
- Maurizio Gnerre: Profilo descrittivo e storico-comparativo di una lingua amazzonica. Lo shuar (jívaro) (= Quaderni di AIΩN. NS 1). Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli 1999.
- Glen D. Turner: Una breve gramática del shuar (= Cuadernos Etnolingüísticos. 19, ZDB -ID 2764761-4 ). Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, Quito 1992.
Web links
- Jivaroan. 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.