Catuquinaru language
| Catuquinarú | |
|---|---|
| Catuquinaru-Bach | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Amazonas |
| Ethnicity | Catuquinaru |
| Era | attested 1890s |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | catu1242 |
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Catuquinaru or Catuquinarú is the extinct and unclassified language of the Catuquinaru tribe of Brazil, preserved in a few words collected by Jose Bach and published by G. E. Church in 1898. The name is a common derivative of Catuquina. Loukotka,[1] among others,[2] includes it among the Tupi languages, describing the people as Tupinized Catuquina. However, the little preserved vocabulary does not resemble that of the Tupi languages, Catuquinan languages, or Panoan languages (compare Panoan Catuquina).
Vocabulary
[edit]The original and only recorded vocabulary of Catuquinarú is presented below.
Catuquinarú vocabulary[3] Gloss Catuquinarú head tacasú hair anahé eyes cesá nose tinoá mouth agahó teeth canha neck yayoruá breast putia shoulders copey arm yanó stomach maricau eyebrows namÿ legs getemaupú feet pihú hands punÿ house/maloca ocausú white man/Christian carynosú large boat moracatÿ hammock/net ouÿsauarusú arrows uhÿnasú bow uhÿnarasúcó poison for arrows orarÿ earthen pot comatÿnú copal gum ananÿ water uhehÿ
Some recorded phrases are as follows:
Guabila-guateli-téna? 'What tribe do you belong to?'
Amago-hépÿ 'We belong to this'
Acó 'No, I don't want it, I am not agreed'
Honaytÿ 'I want it, I accept'
Bach reported that the Catuquinaru used a coded version of their language to communicate over distances of up to 1.5 km via drums called cambarysus.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.
- ^ Church, George Earl (1898). "Notes on the Visit of Dr. Bach to the Catuquinarú Indians of Amazonas". The Geographical Journal. 12 (1): 63–67. doi:10.2307/1774499. ISSN 0016-7398.
- ^ Indian wireless system of communication, in Telegraph and Telephone Age: Telegraphy-telephony-radio (1917), page 380
- ^ Richard Hennig, Telegraphensysteme der Naturvoelker, in Prometheus: Illustrierte Wochenschrift über die Fortschritte, volume 20, number 1013 (24 March 1909)
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