Timote language
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| Timote–Cuica | |
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| Migurí | |
| Native to | Venezuela |
| Region | Mutús |
| Ethnicity | Timoto-Cuica people |
Native speakers | (200? cited 1977, Mutú) |
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| ISO 639-3 | ([MUF] retired in Ethnologue 15) |
| Glottolog | timo1237 Timote-Cuica |
| ELP | Template:Endangered Languages Project |
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Timote, also known as Timote–Cuica, is the language of the Timote–Cuica state in the Venezuelan Andes, around the present city of Mérida and south of Lake Maracaibo.
Geographical distribution
Cuica was spoken from Humocaro in Lara to Jajó in Trujillo, and Timote was spoken in the Motatán and Chama river valleys from Timotes to La Grita in Táchira state.
History
At the time of Spanish contact, the Timote and Cuica, who were agriculturalists, inhabited the modern-day states of Mérida and Trujillo in Venezuela. It is said that the Cuicas received the Spaniards in a friendly manner, while the Timotes were more warlike. Descendants of these peoples reside in a number of villages in the region, but are thought to have lost their distinct languages in the early 20th century. However, in 1977, a report by Merrill Seely references a language supposedly spoken in the locality of Mutús, "above" Pueblo Llano Municipality in Mérida state. This language would "almost certainly" be Timote, the original language of the region. The name Timote itself is derived from Script error: No such module "Lang". 'Mutú speakers'. mutú or mukú is a common toponym in the region,[1] possibly meaning 'people', 'community', or 'village', and was so common that scholar Julio César Salas "saw it as a suitable replacement for the name Timote".[2][3]
Documentation
Around the beginning of the 20th centiury, a number of local scholars collected data on the Timote language. These include Tulio Febres Cordero, Amílcar Fonseca, and José Ignacio Lares.[2] These data were compiled and discussed by Paul Rivet (1927).[3] Alfredo Jahn (1927) also collected anthropological data, along with documentation of the language.[2]
Classification
Timote shows no immediately apparent similarities with the nearby Arawakan, Cariban, and Chibchan languages. Rivet (1927) compared vocabulary from Timote and Cuica with Páez and a number of Chibchan languages,[3] with a few similarities visible but "no overall picture", according to Willem Adelaar and Pieter Muysken (2004).[2] Marcelo Jolkesky (2016) identifies some lexical similarities with the Jirajaran languages.[4]
Dialects
There is no certainty on whether or not Timote and Cuica were dialects of a single language or distinct from each other. Jahn (1927), who collected data on Timote, claimed that Timote and Cuica were one and the same language, and his data correspond quite closely with the "Cuica" examples collected by Fonseca.[2]
Mucuchí–Marripú is another dialect of Timote; Campbell (2012) distinguished them as separate languages.[5]
Phonology
Consonant clusters, somewhat unusual for the area, are found word-initially, especially in Cuica: kču 'bird', stots 'blood', Timote klef 'rainy season', hutn 'dog'.[2]
Vocabulary
A possible Quechua loanword is present in Timote in the word Script error: No such module "Lang"., referring to a shell trumpet.[2]
Numerals
Timote has an obviously decimal numeral system.[2]
| Gloss | Timote | Cuica |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | karí | |
| 2 | xem, xen | |
| 3 | šut, sut, hisxut |
šuent |
| 4 | pit | pití |
| 5 | kabó, kabok |
kamó |
| 6 | kasum, kaksúm, kapsún |
katseunt |
| 7 | mai-xem, mai-xén |
ma-en |
| 8 | mai-xut, mai-sxut |
mabi-šuent |
| 9 | mai-pit | mabi-pita |
| 10 | tabís | |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of Native America (PDF). Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Muysken, Pieter C. (2004-06-10). "Timote–Cuica". The Languages of the Andes (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511486852.004. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rivet, P. (January 1927). "La famille linguistique Timote (Venezuela)". International Journal of American Linguistics. 4 (2/4): 137–167. doi:10.1086/463765. ISSN 0020-7071.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 9783110255133.
External links
- Fabre: Mutús
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ñáñez, Omar González; Valecillos, Luis Bastidas (2002). "Investigaciones etnolingüísticas sobre el fenómeno "Chontal" en la cuenca alta y media del Chama y en el sector Panamericana del Sur del Lago de Maracaibo". Boletín Antropológico (in español). 20 (56). ISSN 1325-2610. Archived from the original on 2014-06-14.
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