Movima language
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Movima is a language that is spoken by about 1,400 (nearly half) of the Movima, a group of Native Americans that resides in the Llanos de Moxos region of the Bolivian Amazon, in northeastern Bolivia. It is considered a language isolate, as it has not been proven to be related to any other language.
Locations
Movima is spoken in the locations of 18 de Noviembre, 20 de Enero, Bella Flor, Buen Día, Carmen de Iruyañez, Carnavales, Ipimo, Miraflores, Navidad, San Lorenzo, and the town of Santa Ana del Yacuma.[1] The Movima community reported that there are approximately 500 adult speakers as of 2012.[2]Template:Rp
Phonology
Movima has five vowels:
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| Open | Template:IPA link |
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Morphology
In Movima, compounding and incorporation are productive derivational processes. Reduplication and affixation, including some processes (such as the irrealis marker (k)a') that resemble infixation, are also common. Typical examples of inflection, such as number, case, tense, mood, and aspect, are not obligatorily marked in Movima.[4] Many derivational processes can be applied to a single Movima word. The same morpheme may appear multiple times in one word this way, for instance, tikoy-na-poj-na "I make X kill Y."
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.[5]
gloss Movima one sotaru two oira three taxra tooth söichlan tongue rulkua hand chopa woman kukya water tomi fire vé moon yekcho maize kuaxta jaguar rulrul house roya
Further vocabulary:
gloss Movima to sit as to stand en to come jiwa dust vuskwa Movima mowi:maj language chonsineɬ of di'
See also
Further reading
- Judy, R. A.; Judy, J. (1962). Movima y castellano. (Vocabularios Bolivianos, 1). Vocabularios Bolivianos. Cochabamba: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
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External links
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Movima
- Lenguas de Bolivia (online edition)
- Movima (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
- Movima DoReCo corpus compiled by Katharina Haude. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
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