Achagua-Achagua

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Achagua-Achagua is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Achagua people of Colombia and Venezuela.

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Achagua-Achagua canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
Arawakan language
indigenous language
closelyRelatedTo Other Northern Arawakan languages
Piapoco language NERFINISHED
continent South America
culturalAssociation Achagua oral literature
Achagua traditional cosmology
documentationStatus partially documented
endangermentStatus endangered language
ethnolinguisticGroup Achagua NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Achagua NERFINISHED
Achawa NERFINISHED
Axagua NERFINISHED
hasDomain indigenous religious practices
traditional ecological knowledge
hasFeature complex aspect system
contrastive nasalization
noun classifiers
oral and nasal vowels
rich verbal morphology
hasGrammaticalFeature person marking on verbs
possessive marking on nouns
postpositions rather than prepositions
tense-aspect-mood marking
hasPhonologicalFeature distinction between stops and fricatives
simple consonant inventory compared to neighboring languages
hasResourceType grammatical descriptions
lexical wordlists
hasSpeakerCommunity Meta Department of Colombia NERFINISHED
border regions of Venezuela
hasTypology predominantly SOV word order
languageCodeISO639-3 aca
languageFamily Arawakan NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language in Colombia
minority language in Venezuela
morphologicalType agglutinative language
primaryContactLanguage Spanish
region Orinoco River basin NERFINISHED
spokenBy Achagua people NERFINISHED
spokenInCountry Colombia NERFINISHED
Venezuela NERFINISHED
subfamily Northern Arawakan NERFINISHED
threatenedBy language shift to Spanish
usedIn oral storytelling traditions of the Achagua people
traditional rituals of the Achagua people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Achagua language alternativeName Achagua-Achagua