Sirionó language (original) (raw)
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Tupí–Guaraní language of eastern Bolivia
| Sirionó | |
|---|---|
| Mbia cheë | |
| Native to | Bolivia |
| Region | Beni Department, Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia) |
| Ethnicity | Sirionó people |
| Native speakers | 300 (2012)[1] |
| Language family | Tupian Tupí–GuaraníGuarayuSirionó |
| Official status | |
| Official language in |  Bolivia |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | srq |
| Glottolog | siri1273 |
| ELP | Sirionó |
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Sirionó (Mbia Cheë;[2] also written as 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.
Sirionó has phonemic contrasts between front, central, and back, close and mid vowels, i.e.
Sirionó vowels
| | Front | Central | Back | | | --------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------- | --- | | Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ | | Mid | e ẽ | ə ə̃ | o õ | | Open | | a ã | |
Sironió Consonants
| | Labial | Alveolar | Post-Alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | | Nasal | m | n | ɲ | | ŋ | | | | Plosive | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | c | k | ʔ | | prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿd͡ʒ | | ᵑɡ | | | | voiced | b | | | | | | | | Continuant | | s | ʃ | j | w | h | | | Trill | | r | | | | | |
- ^ Sirionó at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Gasparini, Noé; Dicarere Mendez, Victor Hugo (2015). Diccionario sirionó: sirionó - castellano - inglés y castellano - sirionó (PDF). Trinidad, Bolivia: Editorial Tiempos del Beni.
- Firestone, Homer L. (1965). Description and Classification of Sirionó. London: Mouton.
- Holmberg, Allan. (1948). The Sirionó. In J. Steward (Ed.), Handbook of South American Indians: The Tropical Forest Tribes (Vol. 3, pp. 455–463. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Holmberg, Allan. (1969). Nomads of the Long Bow: The Sirionó of Eastern Bolivia (rev. ed.). Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.
- Ingham, John M. (1971). Are the Siriono Raw or Cooked? American Anthropologist, 73 (5), 1092-1099.
- Priest, Perry N.; Priest, Anne M.; & Grimes, Joseph E. (1961). Simultaneous Orderings in Sirionó (Guaraní). International Journal of American Linguistics, 27, 335-44.
- Priest, Perry (1968). Phonemes Of The Sirionó Language. Linguistics 6(41). 102-108. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
- Scheffler, Harold W. (1972). Systems of Kin Classification: A Structural Typology. In P. Reining (Ed.), Kinship Studies in the Morgan Centennial Year (pp. 111–33). Washington, D.C.: Anthropological Society of Washington.
- Scheffler, Harold W.; & Lounsbury, Floyd G. (1971). A Study in Structural Semantics: The Sirionó Kinship System. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
- Sirionó dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
- PROEL: Lengua Sirionó
- Language Museum: Sirionó (bible translation)
- Environment, Culture, and Sirionó Plant Names
- Lenguas de Bolivia Archived 2019-09-04 at the Wayback Machine (online edition)
- Sirionó (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)