Sirionó language

Sirionó language
Sirionó
Yuqui
Spoken in Brazil
Native speakers 520  (date missing)
Language family
Tupian
  • Tupí–Guaraní
    • Group (II)
      • Sirionó
Language codes
ISO 639-3 either:
srq – Sirionó
yuq – Yuqui

Sirionó (also Mbia Chee, Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 speakers (50 are monolingual) in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments) in the village of Ibiato (Eviato) and along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

Sirionó has phonemic contrasts between front, central, and back close and mid vowels, i.e.

Sirionó vowels
i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
e ẽ ə ə̃ o õ
a ã


Yuqui is a dialect.

External links

Bibliography

  • Firestone, Homer L. (1965). Description and classification of Sirionó. London: Mouton.
  • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
  • Homberg, Allan. (1958). The Sirionó. In J. Steward (Ed.), Handbook of South American Indians: The tropical forest tribes (Vol. 3, pp. 455–463. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Homberg, Allan. (1969). Nomads of the long bow: The Sirionó of Eastern Bolivia (rev. ed.). Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.
  • Ingham, John M. (1971). Are the Siriono raw or cooked? American Anthropologist, 73 (5), 1092-1099.
  • Priest, Perry N.; Priest, Anne M.; & Grimes, Joseph E. (1961). Simultaneous orderings in Sirionó (Guaraní). International Journal of American Linguistics, 27, 335-44.
  • Scheffler, Harold W. (1972). Systems of kin classification: A structural typology. In P. Reining (Ed.), Kinship studies in the Morgan centennial year (pp. 111–33). Washington, D.C.: Anthropological Society of Washington.
  • Scheffler, Harold W.; & Lounsbury, Floyd G. (1971). A study in structural semantics: The Sirionó kinship system. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.



Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Sirionó — Parlée en  Bolivie Région  Beni Nombre de locuteurs …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Sirionó — noun A Tupian language of eastern Bolivia …   Wiktionary

  • Sirionó — ISO 639 3 Code : srq ISO 639 2/B Code : ISO 639 2/T Code : ISO 639 1 Code : Scope : Individual Language Type : Living …   Names of Languages ISO 639-3

  • Idioma sirionó — Sirionó Yuqui Hablado en  Brasil  Bolivia …   Wikipedia Español

  • Whistled language — Whistled languages use whistling to emulate speech and facilitate communication. Generally, whistled languages emulate the intonation, tones or vowel formants, and prosody of a natural language so that speakers of that language can recognize the… …   Wikipedia

  • Active-stative language — An active stative language, or active language for short, is one in which the sole argument of an intransitive verb is sometimes marked in the same way as the agent of a transitive verb (that is, like a subject in English), and sometimes in the… …   Wikipedia

  • South American Indian Language Groups, Table — ▪ Table Only languages attested linguistically are included. Extinct languages are shown in italics. A number in parentheses after the name of a group indicates a possible relationship with the group identified by that number. Languages are… …   Universalium

  • Неогубленный гласный среднего ряда верхнего подъёма — Звук ɨ ( ) Номер по МФА 317 Обозначение в HTML #616; …   Википедия

  • Mbya — This article is about the Mbya peoples, for the language called Mbya, see Sirionó language The Mbya are an indigenous people living in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. They are descendents of the once numerous Guarani.This group …   Wikipedia

  • Close central unrounded vowel — ɨ Image …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”