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Cadernos de Etnolingüística
Série Monografias, 2, June/2011
ISBN 978-0-9846008-1-6

Bora loans in Resígaro: Massive morphological and little lexical
borrowing in a moribund Arawakan language

by Frank Seifart (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

This study analyzes the influence of Bora (Boran) on Resígaro
(Arawakan), two languages of the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon region,
using a newly discovered Resígaro wordlist from the 1930s (Manuel
María de Mataró no date), another wordlist from the late 1920s (Rivet
& Wavrin 1951), and another from the early 1970s (Allin 1976:382-458).
It shows that despite heavy structural and morphological influence
(Aikhenvald 2001:182-190) Resígaro has borrowed relatively few lexical
items, around 5% in all three sources. It also shows that the
borrowing of entire sets of grammatical morphemes, including
classifiers, number markers, and bound grammatical roots that is
observable in contemporary Resígaro (Seifart 2011) goes back to at
least the early 20th century. This suggests that this remarkable case
of massive morphological borrowing is not merely an effect of language
decay, linked to the current language endangerment situation of
Resígaro, with only two surviving speakers.

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