Pre-Andine languages

Pre-Andine
Campa
Geographic
distribution
Western Amazon
Linguistic classificationArawakan
  • Southern
    • Pre-Andine
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologprea1240
ELP

The Pre-Andine Maipurean or Arawakan languages, formerly known as the Campa (Kampa) or Campan (Kampan) languages, are a group of closely related Arawakan languages of the Peruvian Amazon.

Languages

Glottolog uses the term Pre-Andine for this group of languages and classifies them as follows, based on classifications by Michael (2011)[1] and Pedrós:[2]

There are grammars for Ucayali-Pajonal,[3] Ashéninka Perené,[4] Nanti,[5] Aiyíninka Apurucayali,[6] and Caquinte.[7]

Cognates

Common vocabulary of Pre-Andine languages[8]

English Nomatsiguenga Asháninca Ashéninca Matsiguenga
Pipile cujubi kanari kanari kanari kanari
my Pipile cujubi nʊ-ganari nʊ-janari nʊ-ganari nʊ-janari
eye -ʊki -ʊki -ʊʊki -ʊki
peach palm kə(i)ri kiri kiri kɨiri
shit -tika -tia -tija / -tsija -tiga
ear -gemita -jeNpita -jiNpita -geNpita
dry piria pirihata piriaa(t) -piriata
bat pihiri pi(h)iri piiri pihiri
earth kipatsi kipatsi kipatshi kipatsi
feather -biti -witi -witi -witi
three maba maawa mawa mawa
my leg nʊ-bari nʊ-wʊri nʊ-wʊri / nʊ-pʊri nʊ-wʊri
bark/shell -taki -taki -taki -taki
beard -sipʊtʊna -ʃipatʊna -ʃipatʊna -ʃipatʊna
(finger)nail -ʃata -seata-ki -seata-ki -ʃata
tree aNtʃa- aNta- aNta- aNta-
chachalaca marati marati ma(r)atsi marati
seed -gitsʊ -itsʊ-ki -kithʊ-ki -kitsʊ-ki
rope -tsa -tsa -tha -tsa
liberator -tsi -tsi -tshi -tsi
urine -tsine -tsini -tshini -tsini
moon kaʃiri kaʃiri kaʃiri
wasp sani sani sani / hani sani
coati kopesi kapeʃi kapeʃi kapeʃi
fish sima ʃima ʃima ʃima
small (h)ani- hani- / hana- ana-
wife -hina -hina -ina -hina
husband -hime -hime -ime -(h)ime
river -ha -ha -a -a
cotton (ome-gi) -ampe-hi -ampi ampe-i
two pite- apite apite pite-
salt tibi tiwi tsiwi tiwi
hard -bakʊ -akʊ -akʊ -akʊ
thorn -tsei -tsee- -tʃee -tsei
1pl (inclusive) -ai -ae -ai -ai

References

  1. ^ Michael, Lev. 2011. La reconstrucción y clasificación interna de la rama Kampa de la familia Arawak. Paper presented at the CILLA V (Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America), 6 October 2011
  2. ^ Pedrós, Toni (2018). "Ashéninka y asháninka: ¿de cuántas lenguas hablamos?". Cadernos de Etnolingüística. 6 (1): 1–30.
  3. ^ Pedrós, Toni (2023). A grammar of Ashéninka (Ucayali-Pajonal). Amsterdam: LOT. ISBN 978-94-6093-425-4.
  4. ^ Mihas, Elena (2015). A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak). Berlin: Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783110766301.
  5. ^ Michael, Lev David (2008). Nanti evidential practice: Language, knowledge, and social action in an Amazonian society. Ann Arbor: University of Texas at Austin.
  6. ^ Payne, David L. (1981). The Phonology and Morphology of Axininca Campa. Dallas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
  7. ^ Swift, Kenneth (1985). Morphology of Caquinte (Preandine Arawakan). University of Texas at Arlington (MA thesis).
  8. ^ Ramirez 2019: 752-753; 2020: 256-257