Upper Rio Negro linguistic area

E643938
Sprachbund linguistic area

The Upper Rio Negro linguistic area is a multilingual region in the northwest Amazon where long-term contact among Indigenous peoples has produced extensive structural convergence and shared linguistic features across several language families.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
South American lowland linguistic area 1
Upper Rio Negro linguistic area canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sprachbund ⓘ
linguistic area ⓘ
characterizedBy long-term language contact ⓘ
multilingualism ⓘ
shared linguistic features ⓘ
structural convergence ⓘ
hasContactLanguage Nheengatu NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasFeature borrowed grammatical morphemes ⓘ
complex verb morphology ⓘ
lexical borrowing across families ⓘ
obligatory evidential marking in many languages ⓘ
phonological convergence ⓘ
shared case-marking patterns ⓘ
similar word order patterns ⓘ
widespread evidentiality systems ⓘ
hasLanguage Baniwa of Içana NERFINISHED ⓘ
Desano NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hup NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nheengatu NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tariana NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tukano NERFINISHED ⓘ
Yanomami NERFINISHED ⓘ
Yuhup NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily Arawakan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Cariban languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nadahup languages ⓘ
Tukanoan languages ⓘ
Yanomaman languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMainRiver Rio Negro NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasResearchField Amazonian linguistics NERFINISHED ⓘ
contact linguistics ⓘ
hasSocialPractice linguistic exogamy ⓘ
patrilineal language transmission ⓘ
stable multilingualism ⓘ
knownFor areal diffusion of grammatical categories ⓘ
intense interethnic contact ⓘ
interaction of Tukanoan and Arawakan languages ⓘ
locatedIn Amazon Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ
Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ
South America ⓘ
Upper Rio Negro region NERFINISHED ⓘ
Venezuela NERFINISHED ⓘ
northwest Amazon ⓘ
partOf Northwest Amazonian linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ
studiedBy Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald NERFINISHED ⓘ
Doris L. Payne NERFINISHED ⓘ
Stephen Hugh-Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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

Kurripako language → isPartOf → Upper Rio Negro linguistic area ⓘ
Chiquitano → hasLinguisticArea → Upper Rio Negro linguistic area ⓘ
this entity surface form: South American lowland linguistic area