Pidjanan_languages

Pidjanan languages

Pidjanan languages

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The Pidjanan languages are a subgroup of Arawakan languages of northern South America.

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Names

The term Pidjanan was coined by Sérgio Meira (2019) from Wapishana pidan ‘people’, as can be seen in the ethnonyms Wa-pishana and Mao-pidian.[2]

They are referred to as Mapidianic in Glottolog 4.3, and as Rio Branco by Nikulin & Carvalho (2019: 270).[3]

Languages

According to Meira (2019), the Pidjanan languages are:[2]

Wapishana is more conservative, while Mawayana has innovated more from Proto-Pidjanan.[2]

Ramirez's (2020) classification is:[1]:36

Parawana and Aroaqui are closely related, and may be the same language.[1]

Proto-language

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Proto-Pidjanan has been reconstructed by Meira (2019).[2]

Phonology

Proto-Pidjanan consonant phonemes:

*p*t*k
*ɗʲ
*ʦ,*ʧ
*s
*m*n
*w(*j)


Proto-Pidjanan vowel phonemes:

*i*u
*a

Morphology

Proto-Pidjanan person-marking prefixes:

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Proto-Pidjanan person-marking suffixes:

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The functions of person markers (verbs in the -ɲɨ ‘realis’/‘present’ form).

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Nominal possession possessed and non-possessed forms.

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Lexicon

Unless indicated otherwise, the Mawayana and Wapishana data below is from Sérgio Meira's field notes, as cited in Meira (2019).

Meira's Mawayana data is from Marurunau, Guyana, and his Wapishana data is from Mapuera (a village that is mostly ethnic Waiwai), Nhamundá-Mapuera Indigenous Area, Pará State, Brazil. The other sources are:

  • Howard (1985-1986)[4]
  • Carlin (2006)[5]
  • Carlin (no date)[6]
  • WLP (2000)[7]
  • Silva, Silva & Oliveira (2013)[8]
  • WLP (2001)[9]
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Vocabulary

100-word Swadesh list for Mawayana and Wapishana:[2]

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Bibliography

  • Melville, C.; Tracy, F. V.; Williams, O. Wapishana. Intercontinental Dictionary Series. 2007. Accessed on Oct. 30, 2007.
  • SB (Surinaams Bijbelgenootschap / Suriname Bible Society). Kaimana’o Tominkaru Paradan (The New Testament). Paramaribo, Georgetown: Suriname Bible Society and Guyana Bible Society, 2012.

References

  1. Ramirez, Henri (2020). Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados. Vol. 3 (1 ed.). Curitiba: Editora CRV. doi:10.24824/978652510234.4. ISBN 978-65-251-0234-4.
  2. Nikulin, Andrey; Fernando O. de Carvalho. 2019. Estudos diacrônicos de línguas indígenas brasileiras: um panorama. Macabéa – Revista Eletrônica do Netlli, v. 8, n. 2 (2019), p. 255-305. (PDF)
  3. Howard, C. V. Formulário dos vocabulários padrões: Questionário do Museu Nacional. 2nd ed. (1960), manuscript. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Filled in for Mawayana), 1985-1986.
  4. Carlin, E. Feeling the need: the borrowing of Cariban functional categories into Mawayana (Arawak). In Aikhenvald, A. Y.; Dixon, R. M. W. (eds.). Grammars in contact: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. p.313–332.
  5. Carlin, E. Karahpaɗa. Arahka iwehtoponpë, Japoma inponopïhpë. [A short text, “Story of curassow sp.”, in Mawayana, Tiriyó, English, and Dutch], no date.
  6. WLP (Wapishana Language Project). Tominpainao Ati’o Wapichan Paradan Paradakaru na’iki Paradauzo-karu kaduzu / Scholar’s Dictionary and Grammar of the Wapishana Language. Lethem: Wapishana Language Project, Rupununi, Region 9, Guyana. Porto Velho: SIL International, 2000.
  7. Silva, B.; Silva, N. de S.; Oliveira, O. Paradakary Urudnaa: Dicionário Wapichana/Português Português/Wapichana. Boa Vista: EdUFRR, 2013.
  8. WLP (Wapishana Language Project). Wapishana Primer. Lethem: Wapishana Language Project, Rupununi, Region 9, Guyana. Porto Velho: SIL International, 2001 (1986).

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