Piaroa–Saliban languages
| Salivan | |
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| Geographic distribution | Colombia and Venezuela |
| Linguistic classification | Saliban |
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Salivan (also Saliban) is a small language family of the middle Orinoco Basin, which conforms an independent linguistic island within an area of Venezuela and Colombia (northern llanos) dominated by peoples of Carib and Arawakan affiliation.
Family division
The Salivan family consists of Piaroa, Mako (often cited as a dialect of Piaroa, though this version is strongly contested by the Mako themselves), Saliva, Ature (extinct) and Hotï. This last one was little known until recently and was wrongly classified within the Maku family.[1]
Genetic relations
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References
- ^ Zent S & E Zent. 2008. Los Hoti, in Aborigenes de Venezuela, vol. 2, second edition
External links
- Sáliba wordlist in Spanish & English with sound
- Ethnologue: Salivan
- PROEL: Familia Piaroa–Saliva
Bibliography
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
- 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.
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