瓦奥语
瓦奥语,通常被称为 Sabela (别称还有:Wao,Huao,Auishiri,Aushiri,Ssabela ; 自称: Wao Terero;贬称:Auka,Auca)是生活在厄瓜多尔亚马逊雨林的Napo河与Curaray河之间的原住民瓦奥人使用的语言。该语言是一门孤立语言。在秘鲁,有一小群说瓦奥语的未接触部落。
瓦奥语 | |
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Sabela/Huaorani / Waorani | |
Wao Terero | |
母语国家和地区 | 厄瓜多尔,秘鲁 |
区域 | Oriente or Ecuadorian Amazon |
族群 | 1,800 Huaorani people (2012)<ref name=e18> |
母语使用人数 | 1,700 (2004)[1] |
语系 | |
官方地位 | |
作为官方语言 | 厄瓜多尔: 原住民领地官方语言 |
语言代码 | |
ISO 639-3 | auc |
ELP | Waorani |
音系
编辑瓦奥语区分鼻元音和口元音。音节结构为(C)V,元音丛比较密集。
p | t | k | |
b | d~ɾ | ɟ~j | ɡ |
m | n | ɲ | ŋ |
w |
前 | 非前 | |||
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口 | 鼻 | 口 | 鼻 | |
高 | i | ĩ | ||
中 | e | ẽ | ɵ~o~ɤ | ɵ̃~õ~ɤ̃ |
低 | æ | æ̃ | a | a |
方言
编辑瓦奥语有三个方言: Tiguacuna(Tiwakuna)方言、Tuei(Tiwi Tuei, Tiwi)方言, 和 Shiripuno方言。
系属关系
编辑Sabela何任何已知语言都没有系属关系。 但是, Terrence Kaufman认为它属于 Yawan 语族。
参考文献
编辑外部链接
编辑- Lengua Sabela (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Huaorani - Spanish Dictionary (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Waorani language dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
相关文献
编辑- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- 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.
- Peeke, M. Catherine. (2003). A Bibliography of the Waorani of Ecuador. SIL International. Retrieved 2007 December 26 from https://web.archive.org/web/20121002142511/http://www.sil.org/silewp/2003/silewp2003-006.pdf
- Pike, Evelyn G and Rachel Saint. 1988. Workpapers Concerning Waorani discourse features. Dallas, TX: SIL.
- Rival, Laura. Trekking through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador, Columbia University Press, 2002.