Shipibo-Conibo people

Spoken in

• Pano languages Shipibo - Conibo

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Shipibo - Conibo is the name of two closely related indigenous ethnic groups in the east of Peru in the area of the River Ucayali settle ( Loreto and Ucayali departments ); they live on farming, fishing and animal husbandry. Their language, which is also referred to as the Shipibo - Conibo, is spoken by about 26,000 people.

Linguistic relationship

Shipibo - Conibo belongs to the Pano linguistic family of languages ​​(English Panoan ), which consists of 28 individual languages ​​( for further classification see Indigenous American languages).

Linguistic characteristics

The suffix -bo ( Shipi -bo, Coni -bo ) denotes the plural. The Shipibo - Conibo has a very large repertoire of suffixes that can be agglutinated to the noun, and especially to the verb. It is a Ergativsprache, the basic word order is subject-object - verb. The set mode in each record must be designated by a suffix compulsory.

In Shipibo Conibo a system of subordinate verb forms (see converbs ), which can not only express anteriority, simultaneity and posteriority to the main set, but also the subject of equality and inequality with the law exists. Interestingly, also the equality of the direct object in the subordinate sentence with the subject of the main clause are displayed (for prematurity ) by a special verb form.

In a number of verbs can noun, refer to the parts of the body, are received in the verb ( incorporation ), these nouns are shortened to a syllable, for example:

Choc - "wash" mequen "hand" → mechoc " wash your hands "

Personal pronouns

The person will not expressed in that language on the verb.