Achagua language
E155589
The Achagua language is an indigenous Arawakan tongue spoken by the Achagua people of Colombia and Venezuela, known for its endangered status and importance to regional cultural heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Achagua language canonical | 3 |
| Achagua (Arawakan) | 1 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Achagua language
ⓘ
surface form:
Achagua (Arawakan)
Achagua-Achagua ⓘ Achawa ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
cultural heritage of Colombia
ⓘ
cultural heritage of Venezuela ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country |
Colombia
ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | important to Achagua cultural identity ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | limited descriptive documentation ⓘ |
| dominantContactLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Achagua ⓘ |
| geneticRelation |
related to Baniwa of Içana language
ⓘ
related to Piapoco language ⓘ related to Tariana language ⓘ |
| glottocode | acha1248 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Achagua ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticFeature |
possessive prefixes on nouns
ⓘ
verb agreement with subject ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | aca ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Upper Orinoco subgroup of Arawakan ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Arawakan languages ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ |
| morphology | polysynthetic morphology ⓘ |
| region |
Orinoco Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Orinoco River basin
|
| revitalizationEffort | community-based language maintenance initiatives ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Achagua people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Colombia
ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ |
| status |
endangered
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Northern Arawakan languages ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | definitely endangered ⓘ |
| usedFor |
oral tradition
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional knowledge transmission ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Achagua (Arawakan)