Guarú language
| Guarú | |
|---|---|
| Garú | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Miritiparaná River |
| Ethnicity | Guarú |
| Era | attested 1937[1] |
Arawakan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | guar1294 |
Guarú (Garú) is an extinct Arawakan language or dialect of Yucuna[2] formerly spoken on the Miritiparaná River in Colombia.[1][3]
Vocabulary
| 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Glottolog 5.2 - Guaru". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ^ 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.