Peba Yagua languages

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The Peba Yagua languages are a small indigenous South American language family that consists of three individual languages :

  • Peba
  • Yagua (also: Yava, Llagua, Yegua) [yad]
  • Yameo [yme]

(The language code according to ISO 639-3 is given in square brackets .)

Yagua is still spoken by around 5,700 people in Peru , the other two languages ​​are now extinct . They were also native to Peru.

The Peba was spoken north of the city of Pebas on the Amazon , the name of which is obviously related to this ethnic group.

Doris L. Payne considers a relationship between these languages ​​and the Zaparo languages to be possible.

Linguistic characteristics

The Yagua has the basic word order Verb-Subject-Object (VSO).

literature

  • Doris L. Payne: Evidence for a Yaguan-Zaparoan connection. In: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Work papers. Vol. 28, 1984, ISSN  0361-4700 , pp. 131-156.
  • Doris Lander Payne: Aspects of the grammar of Yagua: A typological perspective . Dissertation, University of California Los Angeles 1986.
  • Paul S. Powlison (ed.): Diccionario yagua - castellano (= series lingüistica peruana. 35, ISSN  1022-1506 ). Ministerio de Educación - Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, Lima 1995.
  • Mary Ruth Wise: Small language families and isolates in Peru. In: Robert MW Dixon , Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 307-340.

Web links

  • Peba-Yaguan (language family). 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.