Moxo languages
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| Moxo | |
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| Mojos | |
| Native to | Bolivia |
| Region | Beni Department |
| Ethnicity | 21,000 Moxo people (2004)[1] |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2000–2004)[1] |
Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:ign – Ignaciano Moxostrn – Trinitario Moxos |
| Glottolog | moxo1234 Mojenomagi1242 Magiana |
| ELP | |
Moxo (also known as Mojo, pronounced 'Moho') is any of the Arawakan languages spoken by the Moxo people of the Llanos de Moxos in northeastern Bolivia. The two extant languages of the Moxo people, Trinitario and Ignaciano, are as distinct from one another as they are from neighboring Arawakan languages. The extinct Magiana was also distinct.
Moxo languages have an active–stative syntax.[2]
Sociolinguistic background[edit]
The languages belong to a group of tribes that originally ranged through the upper Mamoré, extending east and west from the Guapure (Itenes) to the Beni, and are now centered in the Province of Moxos, Department of Beni, Bolivia.[3] They form part of the Mamoré-Guaporé linguistic area.[4][5]
Moxo was also the primary lingua franca (Spanish: lengua general) used in the Jesuit Missions of Moxos.[6]
Ignaciano is used in town meetings unless outsiders are present, and it is a required subject in the lower school grades, one session per week. Perhaps half of the children learn Ignaciano. By the 1980s there were fewer than 100 monolinguals, all older than 30.
Classification[edit]
The Moxo languages are most closely related to Bauré, Pauna, and Paikonéka. Together, they form the Mamoré-Guaporé languages (named after the Mamoré River and Guaporé River). Classification by Jolkesky (2016):[7]: 8
Classification by Danielsen (2011) and Danielsen & Terhart (2014: 226):[8][9]
- Baure languages
- Bauré
- Carmelito
- Joaquiniano: spoken in San Joaquín
- Pauna languages
- Paunáka
- Paikonéka
- Mojo languages
- Trinitário: spoken in Trinidad
- Ignaciano: spoken in San Ignacio
- Loretano: spoken in Loreto
- Javierano: spoken in San Javier
- Muchojeone
Word lists[edit]
The following is a wordlist containing sample words from English to Moxos:
| English | Moxos |
|---|---|
| One | Ikapia |
| Two | Apisá |
| Three | Impúse |
| Man | Ehiro |
| Woman | Eseno |
| Sun | Sáche |
| Water | Uni |
| Fire | Yuku |
| Head | Nuxuti |
| Hand | Nubupe |
| Corn | Suru |
Magíana word list from the late 1700s published in Palau and Saiz (1989):[10]: 170
Spanish gloss English gloss Magíana bueno good shiomá malo bad shiomallama el padre father papá la madre mother kay el hermano brother nomasqui uno one huestiche dos two heravetá
See also[edit]
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Classification of indigenous languages of the Americas
- Mesoamerican languages
- Language families and languages
- Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Category:Indigenous languages of the Americas (division into geocultural areas)
- Languages of Peru
- List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin
Further reading[edit]
- Carvalho, Fernando O. de; Françoise Rose. Comparative reconstruction of Proto-Mojeño and the phonological diversification of Mojeño dialects. LIAMES, Campinas, v. 18, n. 1, p. 3–44, Jan./Jun. 2018. doi:10.20396/liames.v1i1.8648804
- Key, Mary Ritchie. 2015. Ignaciano dictionary. In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Gill, Ruth, and Wayne Gill. 2015. Trinitario dictionary. In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Ignaciano Moxos at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Trinitario Moxos at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ^ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
- ^ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10606b.htm, New Advent, Moxos Indians, Retrieved February 10, 2011.
- ^ Crevels, Mily; van der Voort, Hein (2008). "4. The Guaporé-Mamoré region as a linguistic area". 90: 151–179. doi:10.1075/slcs.90.04cre. ISSN 0165-7763. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ Muysken, Pieter; Hammarström, Harald; Birchall, Joshua; Van Gijn, Rik; Krasnoukhova, Olga; Müller, Neele (2014). Linguistic areas: bottom-up or top-down? The case of the Guaporé-Mamoré. In: Comrie, Bernard; Golluscio, Lucia. Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 205-238.
- ^ Crevels, Mily. 2002. Speakers shift and languages die: An account of language death in Amazonian Bolivia. In Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sérgio Meira & Hein van der Voort (eds.), Current Studies on South American Languages [Indigenous Languages of Latin America, 3], p. 9-30. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS).
- ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2016. Uma reconstrução do proto-mamoré-guaporé (família arawák). LIAMES 16: 7-37.
- ^ Danielsen, Swintha (2011). The personal paradigms in Baure and other South Arawakan languages. In Antoine Guillaume; Françoise Rose (eds.). International Journal of American Linguistics 77(4): 495-520.
- ^ Danielsen, Swintha; Terhart, Lena (2014). Paunaka. In Mily Crevels; Pieter Muysken (eds.). Lenguas de Bolivia, vol. III: Oriente, pp. 221-258. La Paz: Plural Editores.
- ^ Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz. 1989. Moxos: Descripciones exactas e historia fiel de los indios, animales y plantas de la provincia de Moxos en el virreinato del Perú por Lázaro de Ribera, 1786-1794. Madrid: El Viso.
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Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Mojeño reconstructions |
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