Jarawara language

Jarawara language

Infobox Language
name=Jarawara
region=Amazonas, Brazil
speakers=155
familycolor=American
fam1=Arauan
script=Latin alphabet
iso2=sai
iso3=jap

Jarawara (also Jaruara, Jaruára, Yarawara) is a dialect of Madi, an Arauan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil. Jarawara is spoken by approximately 155 people.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

The glottal stop IPA| [ʔ] has a limited distribution.

The liquid IPA|/r/ may be realized as a trill IPA| [r] , flap IPA| [ɾ] , or lateral IPA| [l] . The palatal stop IPA|/ɟ/ may be realized as a semivowel IPA| [j] .

The glottal fricative IPA|/h̃/ is nasalized. See rhinoglottophilia.

Bibliography

*
*cite journal |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |year=1995 |title=Fusional development of gender marking in Jarawara possessed nouns |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |volume=61 |pages=263–294 |doi=10.1086/466256
*cite journal |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |year=2000 |title=A-constructions and O-constructions in Jarawara |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |volume=66 |pages=22–56 |doi=10.1086/466405
*cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |year=2003 |chapter=The eclectic morphology of Jarawara, and the status of word |editor=R. M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Alkhenvald |title=Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press
*cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |year=2004 |title=The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |id=ISBN 0-19-927067-8
*cite journal |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |coauthors=Vogel, A. R. |year=1996 |title=Reduplication in Jarawara |journal=Languages of the World |volume=10 |pages=24–31
*cite book |last=Gordon |first=Ryamond G., Jr. (ed.) |year=2005 |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |edition=Fifteenth edition |location=Dallas, Tex. |publisher=SIL International |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/
*cite book |last=Kaufman |first=Terrence |year=1994 |chapter=The native languages of South America |editor=C. Mosley & R. E. Asher |title=Atlas of the world's languages |pages=46–76 |location=London |publisher=Routledge

ee also

* Arauan languages

External links

* Ethnologue: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=jap Jaruára]
* Proel: [http://www.proel.org/mundo/jarawara.htm Lengua Jarawara]


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