Language name and locationː Paunaka, Chiquitanía, Bolivia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 保纳卡语, 玻利维亚东南部圣何塞德奇基托斯省奇基塔尼亚区  

1. 'tʃɨ.na.tʃɨ  *

2. 'ɾus.tʃɨ

3. 'tɾes.tʃɨ

4. 'kwa.tɾɔ.tʃɨ

5. 'siŋ.kɔ.tʃɨ

6. 'sɛi.tʃɨ

7. 'sjɛ.tɛ.tʃɨ

4. use Spanish numerals completely.

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Lena Terhart, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, July 31, 2012.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Lena Terhart, 2012 年 7 月 31 日

Other comments: Paunaka is a critically endangered Southern Arawakan language, spoken in the eastern Bolivian region Chiquitanía (16°46’15” S, 61°27’15” W). Until recently Paunaka and its possibly close relative Paikoneka were classified extinct by linguists, however, approximately ten speakers and semi-speakers still live in the communities surrounding Concepción de Chiquitos and in the TCO Lomerío. All speakers are trilingual with Spanish and Bésɨro (or Chiquitano), which are the dominant languages of the region. No grammar of Paunaka has been published until now, and ethnographic data is scarce. In this project we collect and transcribe roughly 50 hours of data, partly in Paunaka and partly in Spanish, which will be stored in the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR). The linguistic part of the project focuses on a description of the Paunaka language, as well as its relation to Paikoneka and other Arawakan languages. The ethnographic part seeks to clarify what factors constitute a Paunaka identity among the Chiquitano. There is only one traditional number 'one' tʃɨ.na.tʃɨ kept in Paunaka. Numbers 8, 10, 12, and 20 also occurred in my data, all of them without the suffix -tʃɨ. Anyway, as they only occurred in contexts that are highly associated with Spanish (like counting months, money etc.) and where often surrounded by more loans/codes witching, the data is probably not so reliable, and I decided to exclude the numerals from the list.

the information about the phones in a tex-file at the moment, and not in a chart either.

Paunaka Phonemes:

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