Piaroa-Sáliba languages
The Piaroa-Sáliba languages (also: Saliva-Piaroa-Sprachen , Engl. Saliban / Salivan languages ) are a small indigenous South American language family , which consists of the three individual languages Sáliba (also: Sáliva ), Piaroa and Maco .
structure
- Sáliba [slc] (approx. 1,500 speakers in Colombia and Venezuela )
- Piaroa Maco
- Piaroa [pid] (approx. 12,000 in Venezuela and Colombia)
- Maco [wpc] (approx. 2,500 in Venezuela)
(The language code according to ISO 639-3 is given in square brackets .)
literature
Sáliba:
- Hortensia Estrada Ramírez: La lengua sáliba . Bogotá 1995.
- María Matilde Suárez: La lengua sáliva . Caracas 1977.
Piaroa:
- Hernán Feddema: Ensayo de gramática piaroa . Puerto Ayacucho 1966.
- Pedro Krisólogo: Manual glotológico del idioma wo'tiheh . Caracas 1976. (name of the language)
- Maurelena Remiro: Una gramática pedagógica-referencial de la lengua wótjüjä (piaroa) . Caracas 1988.
Web links
- Ethnologue, Languages of the World (16th ed.): Salivan (Sprachfamilie)
- PROEL: Familia piaroa-sáliva (in Spanish, with maps)
- Sáliba word list with sound files by Nancy L. Morse