Paez (language)
| Paez | ||
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Spoken in |
Colombia | |
| speaker | 70,000–80,000 (as of 2000) | |
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| ISO 639-3 |
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The Paez (with Spanish accent: Paez , name: Nasa Yuwe ) is a language spoken by the Paez people (name: Nasa ), who live in the Andean region of Colombia , especially in the Departamento del Cauca .
Genealogical classification
It is controversial to which language family the Paez belongs. Some divide it the Chibcha- or macro Chibchan languages , others assign it to Barbacoa languages to. Others see it as an isolated language . Greenberg (1987) suggests a large group of Chibcha-Paez , while Uricoechea (1887) highlighted the relationship between Paez and the Andean languages, e.g. B. the Quechua .
Linguistic situation
Currently, the Paez is spoken by more than 100,000 people, with the tendency to decrease in the number of speakers, as there are sound phonological and grammatical studies as well as dictionaries and primers, so that the programs for the preservation of the language, the teaching of the Paez and the teaching on Paez, in the context of official and non-official programs of the etnoeducación , which represent a priority of the local authorities and at the same time encourage the intensification of their own communication media, such as B. Radio Payumat or Radio Nasa .
Linguistic characteristics
Phonology
The Paez distinguishes between the vowels a , e , i and u , which can also be nasalized, long or long and nasalized.
The language has 38 consonant phonemes , including palatalized, aspirated, and prenasalized.
grammar
In the case of the personal pronouns of the first and second person singular, a distinction is made between the genera “feminine” and “masculine”; the plural of both persons is derived from the feminine form in each case. The third person is neutral in this regard:
| I | andy (masculine), ũ'cue (feminine) |
| you | indy (masculine), i'cue (feminine) |
| he she it | cyãa / tyãa |
| we | cue'sh |
| her | i'cue'sh |
| she | cyãawe'sh / tyãawe'sh |
(after Slocum / Gerdel 1983)
The verb uses suffixes to denote tense , aspect and mode , and in the second person the feminine or masculine gender . The verb can with prefixes are provided intensity.
The nouns are declined with the help of suffixes , which denote the case nominative, accusative, dative, ablative, locative and instrumental as well as with the help of postpositions .
It is an agglutinating language . The basic word order is subject-object-verb . The adjective follows the noun .
Numerals
From "seven" the Spanish numerals are used in Paez, but there is a separate word for "ten" (according to Slocum / Gerdel 1983):
| one | teech |
| two | e'nz |
| three | tecj |
| four | pajnz |
| five | tajts |
| six | teesacy |
| seven | siet |
| eight | ocho |
| nine | nueve |
| ten | csemba |
literature
- Eugenio del Castillo y Orozco (edited by Ezequiel Uricoechea ): Vocabulario Paez-Castellano . Paris 1877.
- Ingrid Jung: Grammar of Páez . Dissertation, Osnabrück 1989.
- Rocío Nieves Oviedo et al .: Estudios Fonológicos de la Lengua Paez (Nasa Yuwe) . Bogotá 1991.
- Tulio Rojas Curieux et al .: Estudios Gramaticales de la Lengua Paez (Nasa Yuwe) . Bogotá 1991.
- Marianna C. Slocum: Gramática Paez . Lomalinda (Meta) 1986.
- Marianna C. Slocum et al. Florence L. Gerdel: Diccionario Paez-español / español-Paez . Townsend, Lomalinda (Meta) 1983.
- Josef Drexler: Eco-Cosmology - the polyphonic contradiction of Indian America. Resource crisis management using the example of Nasa (Paez) from Tierradentro, Colombia . Habilitation, Münster 2009.