Maku languages
Makú is an indigenous language family from South America that is common in northwestern Brazil and Colombia . The language with the most speakers is Hupdé Makú with 1,300 speakers.
A distant relationship with the Puinave ( ISO 639-3: pui), which is spoken by about 2,200 people in Colombia and Venezuela , has been postulated.
structure
- Cacua [cbv]
- Dâw [kwa]
- Hupdë [jup]
- Nadëb [mbj]
- Nukak Maku [mbr]
- Yuhup [yab]
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annotation
The Makú languages are not to be confused with the genetically isolated single language Máku from Roraima , which was last spoken in northern Brazil and is now practically extinct. According to Terrence Kaufman (1990) there could be another connection between this language and the Arutani-Sapé .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert MW Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Máku. In: Robert MW Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 361-362.
literature
- Harald Haarmann : Small Lexicon of Languages. From Albanian to Zulu (= Beck series. 1432). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47558-2 .
- Silvana de Andrade Martins, Valteir Martins: Makú. In: Robert MW Dixon , Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 251-267.
Web links
- Maku (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.
- Puinave. 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.