Guarú language

Guarú
Garú
Native toColombia
RegionMiritiparaná River
EthnicityGuarú
Eraattested 1937[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologguar1294

Guarú (Garú) is an extinct Arawakan language or dialect of Yucuna[2] formerly spoken on the Miritiparaná River in Colombia.[1][3]

Vocabulary

Guarú vocabulary[1]
gloss Guarú
banana xaːarú
many makeixe-neča
good(ness) puːpoača
path ñieñiepu
hair xiči
stars ibiri
woman nulakeyeguay
good woman puːpñana-čima
man ačiña
good man puːpoačiña
bad man imayaua-čima
he iča-leé
they mape-čima
I nu-ča
hand yatela-čima
hands yamačela
to eat peña-kape-eno
we two eat xiyama guag-neča-pena ma-ama
of mine nuu-dexe
ours na-lexe ačačina
we ne-ča
foot numa
feet vaːmagñuma
his, yours pi-lexe ača
sun kaamu
you (sg.) pi-te-ča
you (pl.) iča-maneba
one paglua-čima
two xeyama
three uzíkele
four pako-keit

Referencea

  1. ^ a b c Rivet, Paul (1947). "La langue guarú". Journal de la société des américanistes. 36 (1): 137–138. doi:10.3406/jsa.1947.2359.
  2. ^ "Glottolog 5.2 - Guaru". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
  3. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages (PDF) (4th ed.). Latin American Center, UCLA: Latin American Center, University of California Los Angeles. p. 239. ISBN 9780879031077.