Language name and locationː Ignaciano, El Beni, Bolivia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 伊格纳谢安诺语, 玻利维亚东北部贝尼省亚马逊雨林 

1. eta-

2. api-

3. mapa-

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Willis Ott, SIL International, October 17, 2008.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Willis Ott, 2008 年 10 月 17 日.

Other comments: Ignaciano or Inaciànurupi, Ignaciano Mojo, Mojeño is spoken by approximately 1,000 speakers out of 2,000 ethnic population in El Beni department, Bolivia. Ignaciano is an agglutinative language of the Maipurean family. I have seen no evidence of it's being tonal. There are only three traditional numbers. One, two, and more than that. I have found not evidence of other numbers, though it is likely that they once existed. The consonants are pronounced almost as in English. The vowels are pronounced as they are pronounced in Spanish. The "e" has the sound of "e" in "better". The "a" is central to the mouth. the "u" is front and rounded. The "i" is high and front, sounding like the two "ee" in "beet". There are only four vowels, with 16 consonants. The unusual consonant is "sh", which is like. The Ignaciano numbering system involves an suffix that defines the shape class of the item that is counted. For example: 1 rope or string is called “etapi”. 1 piece of paper or a board or a cloth is called “etame”. 1 finger or 1 stick or 1 log is called “etaki”. In the chart below, we use a hyphen to represent the shape class. The stress is on “éta-” but we do not write it.