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Nomatsiguenga language

Nomatsiguenga language

Arawakan language spoken in Peru


Nomatsiguenga (Matsigenka) is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is close enough to Machiguenga to sometimes be considered dialects of a single language, especially given that both are spoken by the Machiguenga people. Most speakers are monolingual.

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Phonology

According to Lawrence, Nomatsiguenga has the following consonant and vowel phonemes.[2]

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Grammar

Nomatsiguenga is one of the few languages in the world that has two different causative mechanisms to denote whether the causer was involved in the activity with the causee or not. The prefix ogi- is used to express the idea that the causer was not involved in the activity, while the suffix -hag is used when the causer is involved.[3]

y-ogi-monti-ë-ri

3SG+M-CAUS1-cross.river-NFUT-3SG+M

i-tomi

3SG+M-son

y-ogi-monti-ë-ri i-tomi

3SG+M-CAUS1-cross.river-NFUT-3SG+M 3SG+M-son

"He made his son cross the river (he told him to)."

y-monti-a-hag-ë-ri

3SG+M-cross.river-E-CAUS2-NFUT-3SG+M

i-tomi

3SG+M-son

y-monti-a-hag-ë-ri i-tomi

3SG+M-cross.river-E-CAUS2-NFUT-3SG+M 3SG+M-son

"He made his son cross the river (he helped him across)."


References

  1. Nomatsiguenga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Lawrence, Aimee L. (2013). Inflectional Verbal Morphology in Nomatsigenga (Thesis). University of Texas at Austin.
  3. Wise, M.R. (1986). "Grammatical characteristics of PreAndine Arawaken languages of Peru." pg. 567–642. In Derbyshire, D. C. & Pullum, G. K., eds. (1986). Handbook of Amazonian languages, Vol. 1'. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Cited in Dixon, R.M.W. (2000). "A Typology of Causatives: Form, Syntax, and Meaning". In Dixon, R.M.W. & Aikhenvald, Alexendra Y. Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University Press.



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