Harakmbut languages

Harakmbut (also: Harakmbet; Hate ) is the name of an indigenous South American language family, which consists of only two individual languages ​​:

  • Amarakaeri (about 500 speakers, 1987 level; language code according to ISO 639-3 [ amr ] )
  • Huachipaeri (about 310 speakers, booth 2000; language code: [ hug] )

Both languages ​​are spoken in southeastern Peru in the regions of Madre de Dios and Cusco. Huachipaeri is divided into several dialects.

It is accusative with the basic word order of subject-object - verb ( SOV ).

Swell

  • Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World ( 16th edition): Harakmbet ( language family )
  • Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World ( 16th edition): (map, languages ​​Nos. 5 and 33) Languages ​​of Peru
  • Helmut Glück ( ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 1st edition. Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 1993, p 616
  • Mary Ruth Wise: Small language families and isolates in Peru. In: RMW Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.): The Amazonian languages ​​. Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 307-340.

Further Reading

  • Henry A. Helberg Chávez: Sketch of a grammar of Amarakaeri. Dissertation, Tübingen 1984.
  • Robert Tripp: Diccionario Amarakaeri Castellano. Yarinacocha 1995. ( Dictionary, PDF)
  • Language family
  • Indigenous languages ​​of the Americas
  • Language (South America)
Amarakaeri language Madre de Dios Region Cusco (Region) Nominative–accusative language Linguistic typology
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