Bue Huitoto language

E1009175

Bue Huitoto is an indigenous Witotoan language spoken by the Huitoto people of the northwestern Amazon region, primarily in Colombia and Peru.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American Indian language
South American language
Witotoan language
indigenous language
associatedReligion indigenous Amazonian belief systems
belongsTo Huitoto cultural area NERFINISHED
contactLanguage Spanish
continent South America
country Republic of Colombia NERFINISHED
Republic of Peru NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Huitoto NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Bue
Minica Huitoto NERFINISHED
Muinane Witoto NERFINISHED
Mɨnɨca
hasDocumentation linguistic descriptions and wordlists
hasDomainOfUse ceremonial contexts
home and community domains
hasEndangermentCause language shift to Spanish
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
hasMorphologicalFeature derivational suffixes
person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
tonal or pitch-accent distinctions (reported for Witotoan languages)
hasSpeakerCommunity riverside settlements in the Amazon Basin
ISO639-3Code bwi
languageFamily Witotoan languages
languageStatus endangered language
macroArea South America NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Bora language NERFINISHED
Murui Huitoto language NERFINISHED
Nüpode Huitoto language NERFINISHED
Ocaina language NERFINISHED
partOf Huitoto linguistic continuum NERFINISHED
primarySpeakersResidence Amazonas Department, Colombia NERFINISHED
Loreto Region, Peru NERFINISHED
region northwestern Amazon
spokenBy Huitoto people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Colombia NERFINISHED
Peru NERFINISHED
usedFor traditional ecological knowledge
transmission of Huitoto myths and cosmology
usedIn daily communication within Huitoto communities
oral tradition
traditional rituals
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Huitoto people usesLanguage Bue Huitoto language