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Shipibo-Conibo
Native toPeru
RegionUcayali Region
EthnicityShipibo-Conibo people
Native speakers
26,000 (2003)[1]
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Chama
        • Shipibo-Conibo
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
shp – Shipibo-Conibo
kaq – Tapiche Capanahua
Glottologship1253

Shipibo (also Shipibo-Conibo, Shipibo-Konibo) is a Panoan language spoken in Peru and Brazil by approximately 26,000 speakers. Shipibo is a recognized indigenous language of Peru.

Dialects

A Shipibo jar

Shipibo has three attested dialects:

Extinct Xipináwa (Shipinawa) is thought to have been a dialect as well,[3] but there is no linguistic data.

Phonology

Vowels

Monophthongs of Shipibo, from Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001:282)
Monophthong phonemes[4]
Front Central Back
Close i ĩ ⟨i⟩ ɯ ɯ̃ ⟨e⟩
Mid o õ ⟨o⟩
Open a ã ⟨a⟩

Nasal

Unstressed

Consonants

Consonant phonemes[7]
Labial Dental/
Alveolar 		Retroflex Palato-
alveolar 		Dorsal Glottal
Nasal m ⟨m⟩ n ⟨n⟩
Plosive p ⟨p⟩ t ⟨t⟩ k ⟨c/qu⟩
Affricate ts ⟨ts⟩ tʃ ⟨ch⟩
Fricative voiceless s ⟨s⟩ ʂ ⟨s̈h⟩ ʃ ⟨sh⟩ h ⟨j⟩
voiced β ⟨b⟩
Approximant w ⟨hu⟩ ɻ ⟨r⟩ j ⟨y⟩

References

  1. ^ Shipibo-Conibo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Tapiche Capanahua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Fleck (2013), p. 18.
  3. ^ Fleck (2013), p. 14.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), p. 282.
  5. ^ Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), pp. 282–283.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), p. 283.
  7. ^ a b c Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), p. 281.

Bibliography

  • Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
  • Elias-Ulloa, Jose (2000). El Acento en Shipibo (Stress in Shipibo). Thesis. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima - Peru.
  • Elias-Ulloa, Jose (2005). Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Disyllabic Footing and Contextual Syllable Weight. Ph.D. Dissertation. Rutgers University. ROA 804 [1].
  • Fleck, David W. (10 October 2013). "Panoan Languages and Linguistics" (PDF). Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (99). ISSN 0065-9452.
  • 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.
  • Loriot, James and Barbara E. Hollenbach. 1970. "Shipibo paragraph structure." Foundations of Language 6: 43–66. (This was the seminal Discourse Analysis paper taught at SIL in 1956–7.)
  • Loriot, James, Erwin Lauriault, and Dwight Day, compilers. 1993. Diccionario shipibo - castellano. Serie Lingüística Peruana, 31. Lima: Ministerio de Educación and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 554 p. (Spanish zip-file available online http://www.sil.org/americas/peru/show_work.asp?id=928474530143&Lang=eng) This has a complete grammar published in English by SIL only available through SIL.
  • Valenzuela, Pilar M.; Márquez Pinedo, Luis; Maddieson, Ian (2001), "Shipibo", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 31 (2): 281–285, doi:10.1017/S0025100301002109

External links

Shipibo test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shipibo-Conibo.
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