Sharanawa (Acre Arara) is a Panoan language of Peru. There are 200 Sharanawa (meaning 'good people') in Brazil, but only 3 speak the language. Its speakers call the language Arara.[1] The Mastanawa dialect may belong to either Sharanawa or Yaminawa, although the Mastanawa regarded their language to be identical with Sharanawa.
| Sharanawa | |
|---|---|
| Sharanahua | |
| Arara, Sharanahuan tsain | |
| Native to | Peru |
| Ethnicity | Sharanawa |
Native speakers | (450 cited 2000) |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mcd |
| Glottolog | shar1245 |
Phonology
editConsonants
edit| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ||||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | |||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʃ2 | ʂ2 | h1 | ||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Tap/Flap | ɾ |
- Pike and Scott (1962) indicate that [h] is velar.
- [ʃ] and [ʂ] are contrastive only when preceeding [a] or [ã].[3]
Vowels
edit| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | nasal | plain | nasal | plain | nasal | |
| High | i | ĩ | ɨ | ɨ̃ | u | ũ |
| Low | a | ã | ||||
Tone
editSharanawa is a tonal language.[2] It distinguishes high tone, marked with an acute accent, and low tone, which is unmarked.[3]
References
edit- ^ "A Survey of the Languages of the Upper Purus River". www.sil.org.
- ^ a b c "Sharanawa". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-23.
- ^ a b Pike, Eunice; Scott, Eugene (1962-01-01). "The Phonological Hierarchy of Marinahua". Phonetica. 8 (1–3): 1–8. doi:10.1159/000258115. ISSN 1423-0321.
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