Cavineña language
E1044177
The Cavineña language is an indigenous Tacanan language spoken by the Cavineña people of northern Bolivia.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tacanan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToLanguageGroup |
Amazonian languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
indigenous languages of Bolivia ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Bolivia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cavineña people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geneticRelation |
related to Araona language
ⓘ
related to Ese Ejja language ⓘ related to Reyesano language ⓘ related to Tacana language ⓘ |
| hasAcademicStudy | described in grammars and dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasClauseStructure | clause-chaining constructions ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | cavi1250 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Cavinena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicyContext | minority language in Bolivia ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticFeature |
case marking on noun phrases
ⓘ
complex system of enclitics ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasNotablePublication | A Grammar of Cavineña NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableResearcher | Antoine Guillaume NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | several hundred speakers ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
small phoneme inventory ⓘ |
| hasPreservationEffort | documented by linguists for revitalization ⓘ |
| hasPronounSystem | person and number distinctions ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Spanish is common among speakers ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Bolivia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | cav ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tacanan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| name | Cavineña NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Amazonian lowlands of Bolivia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Cavineña people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bolivia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northern Bolivia ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication within Cavineña communities
ⓘ
traditional oral narratives ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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