Upper Orinoco subgroup of Arawakan

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branch of language family language subgroup

The Upper Orinoco subgroup of Arawakan is a branch of the Arawakan language family comprising closely related indigenous languages historically spoken in the Upper Orinoco River region of northern South America.

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Label Occurrences
Upper Orinoco subgroup of Arawakan canonical 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of language family ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ
hasAlternateName Upper Rio Negro–Upper Orinoco Arawakan subgroup NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCharacteristic closely related languages ⓘ
indigenous languages ⓘ
hasClassificationBasis lexical similarities ⓘ
phonological correspondences ⓘ
shared morphological patterns ⓘ
hasDocumentationStatus unevenly documented ⓘ
hasGeographicDistribution Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ
Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Venezuela NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLinguisticFamily Arawakan NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMemberLanguage Baniwa of Içana NERFINISHED ⓘ
Baré NERFINISHED ⓘ
Curripaco NERFINISHED ⓘ
Guarequena NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mandahuaca ⓘ
Piapoco NERFINISHED ⓘ
Resígaro NERFINISHED ⓘ
Warekena NERFINISHED ⓘ
Yavitero NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMorphologyType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPrimaryContactLanguages Cariban languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tukanoan languages ⓘ
hasProtoLanguage Proto-Upper Orinoco Arawakan NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasResearchField Amazonian linguistics ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ
hasStatus many languages endangered ⓘ
some languages moribund or extinct ⓘ
hasTypology predominantly head-marking ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant or flexible ⓘ
historicallySpokenIn Upper Orinoco River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ
isSubsetOf Arawakan languages of the Rio Negro–Orinoco area ⓘ
partOf Arawakan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ
region Orinoco River drainage NERFINISHED ⓘ
sharesFeature complex verbal morphology ⓘ
nominal classification or gender systems ⓘ
rich person-marking on verbs ⓘ
sharesFeatureWith other Arawakan branches ⓘ
spokenIn Upper Orinoco River region NERFINISHED ⓘ
northern South America ⓘ
subclassOf Northern Arawakan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedBy indigenous peoples of the Upper Orinoco NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Achagua language → languageBranch → Upper Orinoco subgroup of Arawakan ⓘ