Witoto languages
The Witoto languages (also: Bora-Witoto languages ; named after the individual language Witoto / Huitoto ; English Witotoan ) are an indigenous South American language family that consists of six individual languages with relatively few speakers.
structure
The ISO 639-3 code is given in square brackets :
- Bora group:
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Witoto group:
- Actual Witoto (spoken by the Witoto ):
- Minica Murui:
- Huitoto, Minica [hto] (approx. 1,700 speakers in Colombia and Peru)
- Huitoto, Murui [huu] (approx. 2,900 speakers in Perú and Colombia)
- Nipode:
- Huitoto, Nüpode [hux] (approx. 100 speakers in Perú)
- Minica Murui:
- Ocaina:
- Ocaina [oca] (approx. 70 speakers in Perú and Colombia)
- Actual Witoto (spoken by the Witoto ):
literature
- Wesley Thiesen: Gramática del idioma Bora. Ministerio de Educación, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (Perú), 1996 ( ZIP-compressed PDF file ).
- Mary Ruth Wise: Small language families and isolates in Peru. In: RMW Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 307-340.
Web links
- Ethnologue, Languages of the World: Witotoan (structure)
- PROEL, lenguas del mundo: sub-familia witoto (map)
- Wesley Thiesen, David J. Weber: A Grammar of Bora: With Special Attention to Tone . SIL International , 2012.