Ramarama language

Spoken in

• Tupi languages Ramarama diamond

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Karo is the only living language to the family of the Tupi- counting languages ​​in South America Ramarama language group. It is spoken by the indigenous ethnic group Karo. Previously, the language was conducted under the name of Arara. To distinguish it from the languages ​​of other groups, which are also called Arara, it has been operational since 1987 under the name of diamonds.

Linguistic characteristics

The language has a system of Nominalklassifikatoren are classified within which nouns with regard to the form in which they occur (real or in the imagination ). A practical example is the term for "eye": icagá 'a'. The first word means " eye " and the second " round object ". The language has ten different classifiers that refer to the different appearance of objects by reference.

She also has a system of ideophones, onomatopoeic words with generally very specific meaning, which are used to make stories and conversations " colorful " to. An example of a Ideophon in check is oturum, which means " to fall with a very loud noise to ground." Another example is the word ngârâgn, which means " turn the head backward ." In Karo Ideophone are an open class, that is, they can be formed after the performance and creativity of its speakers, and their number is very large.

The language also has a system of Evidentialwörtern that serve to identify the source or the reliability of the reported information. If a diamond spokesman for example to'wa pronounce the word according to a statement he wants to say that the narrative derives from hearsay, that is, he neither witnessed nor take it as fact, it is there only on the information. The checker has ten different types of Evidentialwörtern.

Note

Karo is also the name of a omotischen language which is spoken in Ethiopia by the ethnicity of Kara.