Vol. 4, n.1: Whatever happened to Mashubi? Taking a new look at Fawcett=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=vocabulary (Voort 2012)

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Whatever happened to Mashubi? Taking a new look at Fawcett’s vocabulary

by Hein van der Voort

In this article, the earliest documentation of a Jabuti language is
analyzed and identified. In 1914, the British explorer Colonel Percy
Fawcett visited the headwaters of the Colorado, Branco and Mekens
Rivers, where he met a group of Indians he called Mashubi. He took
down a list of approximately 100 words, which was published in 1953 by
Paul Rivet. At the present, the received classification of Mashubi is
as a third language of the Jabuti (Macro-Jê) linguistic family, along
with Arikapu and Djeoromitxi. However, the indigenous peoples of the
Guaporé region have never heard of a group called Mashubi.
Furthermore, linguists tend to be unaware of the hypothesis published
in 1955 by Franz Caspar that Mashubi in fact is Arikapu. Until
recently, our ideas about the Jabuti languages could not be verified
for lack of data. In the present article Fawcett’s Mashubi word list
is held up to the light of abundant new data on the Jabuti languages.
It turns out that Caspar was right.

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