Chayahuita language
Chayahuita is an endangered Amazonian language spoken by thousands of native Chayahuita people in the Amazon basin of north-central Peru. Spoken along the banks of the Paranapura, Cahuapanas, Sillay, and Shanusi rivers, it is also known as Chayawita, Shawi, Chawi, Tshaahui, Chayhuita, Chayabita, Shayabit, Balsapuertino, Paranapura, and Cahuapa. There is a 1–5% literacy rate, compared with 5–15% for Spanish, and a dictionary since 1978. It can not be understood by Jebero speakers although there is some overlap in vocabulary, especially some Quechua terms.
| Chayahuita | |
|---|---|
| Cahuapana | |
| Shawi | |
| Native to | Peru |
| Ethnicity | 21,400 (2011) |
Native speakers | 14,000 (2011)[1] |
Cahuapanan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cbt |
| Glottolog | chay1248[2] |
Phonology
There are 4 vowels: /a, i, ɨ, u/.[3]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||
| Fricative | β | s | ʃ | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
| Flap | ɾ |
Vocabulary
Selected Shawi animal names from Rojas-Berscia (2019):[4]
Selected animal names Common name Scientific name Shawi possum Didelphis marsupialis anashi lowland paca Cuniculus paca ipi' red squirrel Sciurus spadiceus pu'shi bicolor porcupine Coendou bicolor sese common rat Rattus norvegicus shumi agouti Dasyprocta punctata ite' capybara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris tucusu' pichico monkey Saguinus fuscicollis ishi' Amazon condor Sarcoramphus papa tame silver mylossoma Metynnis argenteus shite' black prochilodus Prochilodus nigricans wanki armored catfish Pseudorinelepis genibarbis warate' wolf fish Hoplias malabaricus a'nanan peccary Pecari tajacu kiraman jaguar Panthera onca ni'ni' tapir Tapirus terrestris pawara giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis ini' ringtail coati Potos flavus kuwasha' black-headed night monkey Alouatta seniculus nu'nu' yellow-tailed woolly monkey Oreonax flavicauda sura' squirrel monkey Saimiri sciureus isen bald uakari Cacajao calvus tekerenan owl monkey Aotus miconax kuwi spider monkey Ateles belzebuth tu'ya pink dolphin Inia geoffrensis sapana' shusupe Lachesis muta na'shi common lancehead Bothrops atrox tayuwan boa Boa constrictor kupiwan
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References
- "Shawi". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Shawi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
- Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel. 2019. From Kawapanan to Shawi: Topics in language variation and change. Doctoral dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
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