Shipibo–Konibo language

Shipibo–Konibo
Shipibo
Native toPeru
RegionUcayali Region
EthnicityShipibo-Conibo people
Native speakers
26,000 (2003)
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Chama
        • Shipibo–Konibo
Dialects
  • Shipibo–Konibo
  • Kapanawa
  • ?Xipináwa †
Language codes
ISO 639-3shp
Glottologship1254
Peruvian national anthem in Shipibo
National Anthem of Peru in Shipibo
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Shipibo–Konibo (also spelled Shipibo–Conibo, or simply Shipibo) is a Panoan language spoken in Peru and Brazil by approximately 26,000 speakers.

History

In 1557, the Spanish explorer Juan de Salinas y Loyola encountered the Kokama and Pariache; the latter have been identified as Konibo. He described them as though they had been organized into a chiefdom. Throughout the 18th century, the Shipibo, Konibo, and Xetebo allied with the Kokama to defend their territory from the Spaniards; they were successful until 1790. Afterwards, the Franciscans missionized them until their expulsion in the 1820s. They produced the first surviving works on Shipibo-Konibo, including a Konibo grammar sketch and vocabulary in 1800, though these would remain unpublished until a century later.

Dialects

A Shipibo jar

Shipibo has three attested dialects:

Extinct Xipináwa (Shipinawa) is thought to have been a dialect as well, but there is no linguistic data.

Phonology

Vowels

Monophthongs of Shipibo, from Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001:282)
Monophthong phonemes
Front Back
Close i ĩ ⟨i⟩ ɯ ɯ̃ ⟨e⟩
Mid o õ ⟨o⟩
Open a ã ⟨a⟩

In connected speech, two adjacent vowels may be realized as a rising diphthong. /i/ and /o/ are lower than their cardinal counterparts (in addition to being more front in the latter case): [i̞], [o̽], /ɯ/ is more front than cardinal [ɯ]: [ɯ̟], whereas /a/ is more close and more central [ɐ] than cardinal [a]. The first three vowels tend to be somewhat more central in closed syllables, whereas /ɯ/ before coronal consonants (especially /n, t, s/) can be as central as [ɨ].

Nasalization

The oral vowels /i, ɯ, o, a/ are phonetically nasalized [ĩ, ɯ̃, õ, ã] after a nasal consonant, but the phonological behaviour of these allophones is different from the nasal vowel phonemes /ĩ, ɯ̃, õ, ã/. Oral vowels in syllables preceding syllables with nasal vowels are realized as nasal, but not when a consonant other than /w, j/ intervenes.

Unstressed vowels

The second of two adjacent unstressed vowels is often elided. Unstressed vowels may be devoiced or even elided between two voiceless obstruents.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes
Labial Dental/
Alveolar		 Retroflex Palatal
(-alveolar)		 Velar Glottal
Nasal m ⟨m⟩ n ⟨n⟩
Plosive p ⟨p⟩ t ⟨t⟩ k ⟨c/qu⟩
Affricate ts ⟨ts⟩ tʃ ⟨ch⟩
Fricative voiceless s ⟨s⟩ ʂ ⟨s̈h⟩ ʃ ⟨sh⟩ h ⟨j⟩
voiced β ⟨b⟩
Approximant w ⟨hu⟩ ɻ ⟨r⟩ j ⟨y⟩
  • /m, p, β/ are bilabial, whereas /w/ is labial–velar.
    • /β/ is most typically a fricative [β], but other realizations (such as an approximant [β̞], a stop [b] and an affricate [bβ]) also appear. The stop realization is most likely to appear in word-initial stressed syllables, whereas the approximant realization appears most often as onsets to non-initial unstressed syllables.
  • /n, ts, s/ are alveolar [n, ts, s], whereas /t/ is dental [t̪].
  • The /ʂ–ʃ/ distinction can be described as an apical–laminal one.
  • Before nasal vowels, /w, j/ are nasalized [w̃, j̃] and may be even realized close to nasal stops [ŋʷ, ɲ].
  • /w/ is realized as [w] before /a, ã/, as [ɥ] before /i, ĩ/ and as [ɰ] before /ɯ, ɯ̃/. It does not occur before /o, õ/.
  • /ɻ/ is a very variable sound:
    • Intervocalically, it is realized either as continuant, with or without weak frication ([ɻ] or [ʐ]).
    • Sometimes (especially in the beginning of a stressed syllable) it can be realized as a postalveolar affricate [d̠͡z̠], or a stop-approximant sequence [d̠ɹ̠].
    • It can also be realized as a postalveolar flap [ɾ̠].

References

  1. ↑ Shipibo–Konibo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Valenzuela, Pilar M. (2003). Transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo Grammar (PDF) (phd thesis). Eugene, OR: Ann Arbor: UMI.
  3. 1 2 3 Fleck (2013), p. 18.
  4. ↑ Fleck (2013), p. 14.
  5. ↑ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages (PDF) (4th ed.). Latin American Center, UCLA: Latin American Center, University of California Los Angeles. ISBN 9780879031077.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), p. 282.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), p. 283.
  8. ↑ Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), pp. 282–283.
  9. 1 2 Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), p. 281.

Bibliography

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  • Elias-Ulloa, Jose (2005). Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Disyllabic Footing and Contextual Syllable Weight. Ph.D. Dissertation. Rutgers University. ROA 804 .
  • Fleck, David W. (10 October 2013). "Panoan Languages and Linguistics" (PDF). Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (99): 1–112. doi:10.5531/sp.anth.0099. hdl:2246/6448. ISSN 0065-9452.
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  • Loriot, James and Barbara E. Hollenbach. 1970. "Shipibo paragraph structure." Foundations of Language 6: 43–66. (This was the seminal Discourse Analysis paper taught at SIL in 1956–7.)
  • Loriot, James, Erwin Lauriault, and Dwight Day, compilers. 1993. Diccionario shipibo - castellano. Serie Lingüística Peruana, 31. Lima: Ministerio de Educación and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 554 p. (Spanish zip-file available online http://www.sil.org/americas/peru/show_work.asp?id=928474530143&Lang=eng) This has a complete grammar published in English by SIL only available through SIL.
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