| Nanti | |
|---|---|
| Cogapacorill, Pucapucari | |
| Nanti | |
| Native to | Peru |
Native speakers | 94 (2007)[1] |
Arawakan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cox |
| Glottolog | nant1250 |
| ELP | Nanti |
Nanti is an Arawakan language spoken by approximately 250 people in southeastern Peruvian Amazonia, principally in a number of small communities located near the headwaters of the Camisea and Timpía Rivers. It belongs to the Kampan branch of the Arawak family, and is most closely related to Matsigenka,[2] with which it is partially mutually intelligible.[1]
The language is also sometimes called Kogapakori (variants: Cogapacori, Kugapakori), a pejorative term of Matsigenka origin meaning 'violent person'.[3]
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]The phonemic inventory of Nanti is typical of the Kampa languages and of the Arawakan family as a whole, although there are some differences. The table below does not include allophones, but Nanti's system of allophony is a distinguishing feature of the language.[4]
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveo- palatal |
Velar | Glottal | Unspecified | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | tʲ | k | ||
| voiced | b | g | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɾʲ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | N[a] | |||
| Glide | j | ||||||
Nanti exhibits a lack of symmetry in the stop series; while there is a voiceless /t/, there is no equivalent voiced /d/. This asymmetry is common among the Kampa languages.[6]
Vowels
[edit]Nanti has a vowel inventory typical for the Arawakan languages except for the diphthong /ɯi̯/, which Michael argues is monomoraic.[7]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | ɯi̯ | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Nanti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) 👁 Closed access icon
- ^ Michael 2008, pp. 212–218.
- ^ Michael, Lev and Christine Beier. 2007. Una breve historia del pueblo Nanti hasta el año 2004. Online version: http://www.cabeceras.org/cabeceras_nanti_histor_2004.pdf
- ^ Michael 2008, pp. 220–221.
- ^ Michael 2008, pp. 223–224.
- ^ Michael 2008, p. 220.
- ^ Michael 2008, pp. 224–225.
Bibliography
[edit]- Crowhurst, Megan; Michael, Lev (2005). "Iterative footing and prominence-driven stress in Nanti (Kampa)". Language. 81 (1): 47–95.
- Michael, Lev (2008). Nanti evidential practice: Language, Knowledge, and Social Action in an Amazonian society (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0012-95C3-C.
- Michael, Lev (2012a). "Nanti self-quotation: Implications for the pragmatics of reported speech and evidentiality". Pragmatics and Society. 3 (2): 321–357.
- Michael, Lev (2012b). "Possession in Nanti". In Aikhenvald, Alexandra; Dixon, R. M. W. (eds.). Possession and Ownership: A cross-linguistic typology. pp. 149–166.
- Michael, Lev (2005). "El estatus sintáctico de los marcadores de persona en el idioma Nanti (Campa, Arawak)". Lengua y Sociedad (in Spanish). 7 (2): 21–32.
External links
[edit]- Nanti Collection of Christine Beier and Lev Michael at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Contains four recordings of ceremonies in Nanti with transcriptions and translations.
