- Saliban languages
Infobox Language family
name=Saliban
altname=Piaroan
region=Colombia andVenezuela
familycolor=American
family=Saliban
child1="Sáliba"
child2="Piaroa"Saliban (also Sálivan, Piaroan) is a small
language family ofColombia (northern "llanos") andVenezuela .Family division
Saliban consists of 2 distantly related languages:
: 1.
Sáliba (a.k.a. Sáliva): 2.Piaroa -Maco (a.k.a. Piaroa, Piaroa-Mako, Deʼaruwa)Sáliba was used by
Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century to communicate with indigenous peoples of theMeta ,Orinoco , andVichada valleys.Piaroa-Maco consists of two
dialects : Piaroa (a.k.a. Kuakua, Guagua, Quaqua) and Maco (a.k.a. Mako, Itoto, Wotuja, Jojod). Gordon (2005) lists these as separate languages.Genetic relations
External links
* [http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/Saliba/presentation/SLC_wordlist.htm Sáliba wordlist in Spanish & English with sound]
* Ethnologue: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=91433 Salivan]
* PROEL: [http://www.proel.org/mundo/salivan.htm Familia Piaroa-Saliva]Bibliography
* Adelaar, Willem F. H.; & Muysken, Pieter C. (2004). "The languages of the Andes". Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press.
* Campbell, Lyle. (1997). "American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America". New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
* 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).
* Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), "Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages" (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
* Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), "Atlas of the world's languages" (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.
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