Omagua
E596798
Omagua is an indigenous language of the Amazon Basin, historically spoken by the Omagua people along the upper Amazon River and belonging to the Tupi–Guaraní branch of the Tupian language family.
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | indigenous language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Cambeba
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kambeba NERFINISHED ⓘ Omagua–Kambeba NERFINISHED ⓘ Umaua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | South American macro-area ⓘ |
| contactInfluence |
Nheengatu language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portuguese language ⓘ Spanish language ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country |
Brazil
ⓘ
Peru ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented language ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
language shift to Portuguese
ⓘ
language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Omagua people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geneticClassification | American indigenous language ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | omg ⓘ |
| historicalContact | Jesuit missionaries in the Amazon Basin ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Solimões River region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
upper Amazon ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | lingua franca of parts of the upper Amazon in the colonial period ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Tupi–Guaraní branch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tupian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Tupi–Guaraní NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lexifierFor | regional mixed varieties in the upper Amazon ⓘ |
| morphologicalFeature | rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature | nasal harmony (typical of Tupi–Guaraní languages) ⓘ |
| region |
northeastern Peru
ⓘ
western Brazilian Amazon ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Cocama language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guaraní language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tupinambá language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort | community-based language revitalization projects in Brazil ⓘ |
| spokenAlong | upper Amazon River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | Amazon Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status |
moribund language
ⓘ
severely endangered language ⓘ |
| syntacticFeature | use of postpositions rather than prepositions ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SOV word order (historically reconstructed)
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| usedBy | Omagua ethnic group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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