Guajiboan

	Guajiboan Guajiboan (also Guahiban, Wahívoan, Guahiboan) is a language family spoken in the Orinoco River region in eastern Colombia and southwestern Venezuela, a savanna region known as the Llanos. Family division Guajiboan consists of 5 languages: * Guajiboan Macaguane (also known as Hitnü, Macaguán, Makawane, Agualinda, Agualinda Guahibo, Támude) Southwest Guajiboan * Guayabero (also known as Cunimía, Mítiwa, Mitúa, Mitu, Hiw, Jiw, Wayavero, Guaviare) * Churuya (also known as Bisanigua, Guaigua) ''(†)'' Central Guajiboan * Guajibo (also known as Guahibo, Sikuani, Sicuani, Chiricoa, Hiwi, Jiwi, Jivi, Wahivo, Wahibo, Guaybo, Goahibo, Guaigua, Guayba, Goahiva) ** Waü (west) Newütjü (also known as Tigrero) Parawá (east) Hamorúa (also known as Amorúa, Jamorúa) Dome (also known as Playero, Cajaro) * Cuiva (also known as Wamonae, Cuiba, Kuiba, Deja, Cuiba-Wámonae) ** Pimenepiwi (Meta river) Aitopiwi (Ariporo river) Yara� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Macro-Arawakan Languages Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean centered on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes, the proposal is called Arawakan, and the central family is called ''Maipurean''. Proposals Kaufman (1990) includes the following: Arawakan (Maipurean) Arawan Guajiboan Candoshi Payne (1991) and Derbyshire (1992) have: Arawakan (Maipurean) Arawan Guajiboan Puquina Harakmbet Jolkesky (2016) argues for the following: Arawakan (Maipurean) Candoshi Puquina Munichi According to Jolkesky (op. cit., 611-616), the proto-Macro-Arawakan language would have been spoken in the Middle Ucayali River Basin during the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, and its speakers would have produced Tutishcainyo pottery in the region. Martins (2005: 342–370) groups the Arawakan and Nadahup languages The Nadahup languages, also known as Makú (Macú) or ''Vaupés–Japurá'', form a small language family in Brazil, Colombia, and V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Guayabero Guayabero is a Guahiban language that is spoken by a thousand people in Colombia. Many of its speakers are monoglots, with few fluent Spanish speakers in the population. Phonology The Guayabero syllable structure A syllable is a basic unit of organization within a sequence of speech sounds, such as within a word, typically defined by linguists as a ''nucleus'' (most often a vowel) with optional sounds before or after that nucleus (''margins'', which are ... can be represented as CV(V)(C)(C). Each syllable has an obligatory single consonant onset and a nucleus of one or two vowels. An optional coda of at most two consonants can occur in both word-medial and final positions. References Languages of Colombia Guajiboan languages {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 Departments of Colombia, departments. The Capital District of Bogotá is also the List of cities in Colombia by population, country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub. Other major urban areas include Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Colombia, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Villavicencio and Bucaramanga. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi) and has a population of around 52 million. Its rich cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Arawakan Languages Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient Indigenous peoples in South America. Branches migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas. Almost all present-day South American countries are known to have been home to speakers of Arawakan languages, the exceptions being Ecuador, Uruguay, and Chile. Maipurean may be related to other language families in a hypothetical Macro-Arawakan stock. Name The name ''Maipure'' was given to the family by Filippo S. Gilii in 1782, after the Maipure language of Venezuela, which he used as a basis of his comparisons. It was renamed after the culturally more important Arawak language a century later. The term ''Arawak'' took over, until its use was extended by North American scholars to the broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cuiva Cuiba or Cuiva is a Guahiban language that is spoken by about 2,300 people in Colombia and additional 650 in Venezuela. More than half of Cuiba speakers are monolingual, and in Colombia there is a 45% literacy rate. Cuiva is also referred to as Cuiba, Cuiba-Wámonae, Kuiva, Chiricoa, Hiwi, and Maiben. In Colombia, Cuiva is spoken among those who live and who are born surrounding the Colombian rivers, Meta Casanare and Capanaparo. The Cuiba ethnic group is often found in the Casanare Department. In Venezuela the language is spoken in the state of Apure, one of the states that border with Colombia, and which is found alongside the Capanaparo river. History of Cuiba The term Cuiba is usually used to describe the ethnic group itself, although they do not refer to themselves as Cuiba. Most of those who speak the Cuiba language are monolingual, which is why the language is threatened seeing as the ethnic population itself is only approximately 2,950 and continues to decrease. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Guahibo Language Guahibo, the native language of the Guahibo people, is a Guahiban language that is spoken by about 23,006 people in Colombia and additional 8,428 in Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com .... There is a 40% rate of monolingualism, and a 45% literacy rate. Phonology A /w/ sound can also range to a �sound within words. Sounds /, / can have allophones of Vowels can also be nasalized as /ã, ĩ, ẽ, õ, ũ, ɨ̃/. Writing system Grammar Stress Guahibo has a unique and complex stress system with both primary and secondary stress. The stress system shows a sensitivity to syllable weight so that heavy syllables are always stressed. Both contrasting trochaic and iambic patterns are found on morphemes in nonfinal morphemes with more than two syl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Churuya Churuya, also known as Bisanigua and Guaigua, is an extinct Guahiban language of Colombia. The only sources of the language are 20 words published in 1876 by Nicolas Saenz and another 32 words found in a manuscript found by Adolf Ernst in 1891. Comparison by Sergio Elias Ortiz in 1943 found that 24 words matched with other Guahibo words, while seven others were believed to be borrowed from the Orinoco area, and one was a loanword from Quechua Quechua may refer to: Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language .... References Languages of Colombia Guajiboan languages {{na-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Playero Language Guahibo, the native language of the Guahibo people, is a Guahiban language that is spoken by about 23,006 people in Colombia and additional 8,428 in Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com .... There is a 40% rate of monolingualism, and a 45% literacy rate. Phonology A /w/ sound can also range to a �sound within words. Sounds /, / can have allophones of Vowels can also be nasalized as /ã, ĩ, ẽ, õ, ũ, ɨ̃/. Writing system Grammar Stress Guahibo has a unique and complex stress system with both primary and secondary stress. The stress system shows a sensitivity to syllable weight so that heavy syllables are always stressed. Both contrasting trochaic and iambic patterns are found on morphemes in nonfinal morphemes with more than two syll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yanomami Languages Yanomaman, also as Yanomam, Yanomáman, Yamomámi, and Yanomamana (also Shamatari, Shirianan), is a family of languages spoken by about 20,000 Yanomami people in southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil (Roraima, Amazonas). Subdivision Ferreira et al. (2019) Ferreira, Machado & Senra (2019) divide the Yanomaman family into two branches, with six languages in total. * Yanomaman Ninam-Yanomam-Yaroamë * ''Nimam'' ** Ninam (also known as Yanami, Yanami-Ninami) - 900 speakers in Venezuela and Brazil * ''Yanomam-Yaroamë'' ** Yanomám (also known as Waiká) - 6,000 speakers mainly in Brazil Yanomamö (also known as Yanomame, Yanomami) - 20,000 speakers mainly in Venezuela Yaroamë (also known as Jawari) - 400 speakers in Brazil Yãnoma - 178 speakers in Brazil Sanumá * Sanumá (also known as Tsanuma, Sanima) - 5,100 speakers mainly in Venezuela Sanumá is the most lexically distinct. Yanomamö has the most speakers (20,000), while Yãnoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]