Macaguán language
(Redirected from Hitnu language)
| Macaguán | |
|---|---|
| Hitnü | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | between the Lipa, Ele, and Cuiloto rivers |
Native speakers | 300 (2008)[1] |
Guahiban
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mbn |
| Glottolog | maca1259 |
| ELP | Macaguán |
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Macaguán (Hitnü) is a Guahiban language that was spoken by about 400 people in Colombia. Many of its speakers are monolingual.
It is spoken by the Hitnü on the La Vorágine and San José de Lipa indigenous reservations in the municipality of Arauca in Puerto Rondón.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Macaguán has 6 vowels, five of which can be nasalized, in addition to 16 consonants.[3]
Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ (ʉ) | u ũ |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Open | a ã |
Consonants
[edit]| Bilabial | Dental | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | ||||||
| Fricative | s | h | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | tʃ (ch) | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Liquid | r | ɾ | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j (y) | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ Macaguán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Barrío Londoño, Sandra Patricia (2015), Pueblo Jitnu: Un contexto de desencuentros. Conflictos Ambientales, Interétnicos y Territoriales (in Spanish), Medellín: Universidad Nacional Colombia
- ^ Buenaventura V., Edgar (1993). Observaciones preliminares acerca del idioma macaguán: Apuntes culturales, fonología, apuntes gramaticales, vocabulário macaguán (in Spanish). Bogotá: Editorial Alberto Lleras Camargo. ISBN 958-21-0106-7.
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