Sirionó language

Not to be confused with Yuki language (California).
Sirionó
Mbia chẽẽ
Native to Bolivia
Ethnicity Sirionó people, Yuqui people
Native speakers
500 (2004)[1]
Tupian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
srq  Sirionó
yuq  Yuqui (Yúki)
jor  Jorá (Hora)
Glottolog siri1279  (Siriono–Jora)[2]
yuqu1240  (Yuqui)[3]

Sirionó (also Mbia Chee, Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 Sirionó people (50 are monolingual) and 120 Yuqui in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments) in the village of Ibiato (Eviato) and along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

Phonology

Sirionó has phonemic contrasts between front, central, and back, close and mid vowels, i.e.

Sirionó vowels
i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
e ẽ ə ə̃ o õ
a ã

Notes

  1. Sirionó at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Yuqui (Yúki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Jorá (Hora) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Siriono–Jora". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yuqui". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

References


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