Carapana

Language name and locationː Carapana, Colombia, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 卡拉帕纳语, 哥伦比亚东南部沃佩斯省沃佩斯河流域中段, 皮拉巴拉那河流域地区上段, 普拉里河流域及巴西阿玛逊地区热带雨林

1. hĩkã-

2. pʉ̃ɡa-

3. itia-

4. bapa-ri-kãnakã- (litː bapa=pair, kãnakã-=have or quantity)

5. hĩkã-wãmo-kãrõ or hĩkã wãmo-kãnakã. (litː ''one hand, complete quantity'')

6. hĩkã wãmo-kãnakã ape wãmo hĩkã penirõ (ape=other, penirõ (cogiendo)=taking)

7. hĩkã wãmo-kãnakã ape wãmo pʉ̃ɡa penirõ

8. hĩkã wãmo-kãnakã ape wãmo itia penirõ

9. hĩkã wãmo-kãnakã ape wãmo bapa-ri-kãnakã- penirõ

10. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãrõ ( litː ''two hands, complete quantity )

11. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã ape rupo-re hĩkã penirõ (litː rupo=''foot'')

12. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã ape rupo-re pʉ̃ɡa penirõ

13. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã ape rupo-re itia penirõ

14. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã ape rupo-re bapa-ri-kãnakã penirõ

15. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã hĩkã rupo-re petirõ (litː petirõ=todo=toe )

16. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã hĩkã rupo peti rupo-re hĩkã petirõ

17. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã hĩkã rupo peti rupo-re pʉ̃ɡa petirõ

18. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã hĩkã rupo peti rupo-re itia petirõ

19. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã hĩkã rupo peti rupo-re bapa-ri-kãnakã petirõ

20. pʉ̃ɡa-wãmo-kãnakã pʉ̃ɡa-rupo petirõ (litː ''two hands, two feet finished'')

Linguist providing data and dateː Ms. Ann Choate. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Colombia. December 7, 1990.

提供资料的语言学家: Ms. Ann Choate. 1990 年 12 月 7 日.

Other comments: Carapana or Carapana-Tapuya, Karapano, Karapaná is spoken by approximately 500 speakers out of 1,000 ethnic population in Vaupés department: Cano Tí (tributary of middle Vaupés river) and upper Pirá-Paraná and Papurí rivers, Colombia as well as Brazil. This group lives in the Vaupés Department of Colombia along the Cano Tí tributary of the middle Vaupés river and upper Pirá-Paraná and Papurí rivers, all branches of the Amazon river. There are about 500 people who speak Carapana as their first language. However, due to the norm of marrying a person from another ethnic group and other factors, there are more than a thousand indigenous people who speak Carapana well. Carapana has a traditional counting goes up to 20 similar to that of the related Tatuyo language.

Note: j=IPA [h], c= IPA [k]

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