HUAORANI LANGUAGE

(Redirected from Huao Terero)

The 'Huaorani language' (also 'Huao', 'Auishiri', 'Aushiri', 'Waorani', 'Wao', 'Sabela', 'Ssabela', ; autonym: 'Huao Terero'; pejorative: 'Auka', 'Auca') is a language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon rainforest between the Napo and Curaray Rivers. A small number of speakers with so-called uncontacted groups may live in Peru.

Contents
Regional variation
Genetic relations
See also
External links
Bibliography

Regional variation


Huaorani has 3 varieties:
# 'Tiguacuna' (also known as Tiwakuna)
# 'Tuei' (also known as Tiwi Tuei, Tiwi)
# 'Shiripuno'

Genetic relations


Various hypothetical groupings have included Huaorani:

Joseph Greenberg's Andean grouping

Morris Swadesh's macro-Jíbaro

Jorge Suárez's Hívaro-Kawapana

See also



Huaorani

External links



★ Ethnologue: Waorani language

★ Proel: Lengua Sabela

Bibliography



★ Campbell, Lyle. (1997). ''American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America''. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.

★ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). ''Ethnologue: Languages of the world'' (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).

★ Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). ''Language in the Americas''. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

★ Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), ''Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages'' (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.

★ Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), ''Atlas of the world's languages'' (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.

★ Rival, Laura. ''Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador'', Columbia University Press, 2002.

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