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| Pijao | |
|---|---|
| Pinao | |
| Nativeย to | Colombia |
| Region | Tolima |
| Ethnicity | Pijao people |
| Extinct | 1950s |
unclassified (Cariban?) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pij |
| Glottolog | pija1235 |
Map of the Pijao people and language | |
Pijao is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Pijao (Piajao, originally Pinao[1]) is an unclassified indigenous American language that was spoken in the villages of Ortega, Coyaima (Koyai, Tupe) and Natagaima in the Magdalena River Valley of Colombia until the 1950s, by the Pijao and Panche people.[2]
Subdivisions
editPijao subtribes reported by Rivet (1943, 1944) and cited in Mason (1950):[3]
- Aype, Paloma, Ambeina, Amoya, Tumbo, Coyaima, Poina (Yaporoge), Mayto (Maito, Marto), Mola, Atayma (Otaima), Tuamo, Bulira, Ocaima, Behuni (Beuni, Biuni), Ombecho, Anaitoma, Totumo, Natagaima, Pana (Pamao), Guarro, Hamay, Zeraco, Lucira, and Tonuro.
Classification
editA small vocabulary list was collected in 1943; only 30 Pijao words and expressions are known.[citation needed]
The few words which resemble Carib are thought to be loans; toponyms in Pijao country are also Carib. Durbin & Seijas (1973) did not detect significant connections between Pijao and other unclassified languages of the area: Colima, Muzo, Pantรกgora, and Panche, but these are even more poorly attested than Pijao.[4]
Jolkesky (2016) also notes that there are lexical similarities with the Witoto-Okaina languages.[5]
Vocabulary
edit| Pijao | gloss | Pijao | gloss | Pijao | gloss | Pijao | gloss | Pijao | gloss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| amรฉ | tree | alamรกn | crocodile | nuhรบgi | woman | golรบpa | cassava | orรกi | red |
| homรฉro | bow | tรญnki | tooth | orรฉma | man | lรบn | eye | tolรฉma | snake |
| sumรฉn | to drink | tรกna | water | yaguรกde | jaguar | olรฉma | ear | huรญl | sun |
| ฤaguรกla | canoe | nasรฉs | house | nรบna | moon | pegil | foot | tenรบ | tobacco |
| kahรญrre | dog | hotรฉ | star | รฑรกma | hand | tรกpe | stone |
Notes
edit- ^ Zwisler, Joshua James (2018). "The Pijao of Natagaima: Post-Linguicide Indigenous Identity and Language" (PDF). Cadernos de Etnolingรผรญstica. 6 (1): 51โ80.
- ^ Rivet, Paul (1943). "La influencia karib en Colombia". RINE. 1 (1): 55โ93, 283โ295.
- ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol.ย 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp.ย 157โ317.
- ^ Durbin & Seijas 1973.
- ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguรญstico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2ย ed.). Brasรญlia: University of Brasรญlia.
References
edit- Durbin, Marshall; Seijas, Haydรฉe (January 1973). "A Note on Panche, Pijao, Pantagora (Palenque), Colima and Muzo". International Journal of American Linguistics. 39 (1): 47โ51. doi:10.1086/465239. ISSNย 0020-7071.