[Etnolinguistica] [etnolinguistica] Taruma?

Tue Feb 24 01:15:26 UTC 2015

Oi Marcelo,

obrigado pela dica -- vou dar uma olhada no resto do material, e ver se
concordo. (Noto que a maioria dos termos mencionados no resumo são
monossilábicos, o que aumenta a possibilidade de coincidências... mas
sempre se deve começar por algum lugar.) Respondo-lhe quando tiver mais
algo a dizer.

Sérgio

2015-02-23 14:24 GMT-03:00 Marcelo Jolkesky marjolkesky at yahoo.com.br
[etnolinguistica] <etnolinguistica at yahoogrupos.com.br>:

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>
> Olá Sérgio,
>
> Há uma série de paralelos lexicais muito interessantes entre o Taruma e as
> línguas da família Chibcha. Matthias Pache, Eithne Carlin e eu vamos
> apresentar uma comunicação na 48ª Reunião Anual da Societas Europaea
> Linguistica, na qual avaliaremos a natureza destas semelhanças. Existe,
> neste sentido, a possibilidade de que o Taruma seja uma língua Chibcha. O
> Abstract desta comunicação segue abaixo.
> Um abraço,
>
> Marcelo
>
>
> *Exploring the possibilities of a link between Taruma and the Chibchan
> language family*
>             Marcelo Jolkesky (Universidade de Brasília), Matthias Pache
> (Universiteit Leiden), Eithne Carlin (Universiteit Leiden)
>             From a linguistic point of view, South America is certainly
> one of the most diverse parts of the world. For the eastern part of the
> continent the widespread Arawak, Cariban, Tupian, and Guaycuruan language
> families have already been established in the 18th century (see Gilij
> 1782). At present most of classificatory work still remains to be done in
> the western part of South America (see Adelaar & Muysken 2004:22-3).
> Nonetheless, this does not mean that no unexpected linguistic connections
> can be discovered for languages spoken in eastern South America.
>             In this talk, we propose to compare Taruma, a language
> isolate from Guyana (formerly also spoken in northern Brazil), with the
> Chibchan language family, spoken in an area covering both northern South
> America and Central America. Chibchan languages have been compared with
> many different languages and language families of North, Meso- and South
> America (see, e.g., Jijón y Caamaño 1940-5, Greenberg 1987). Presenting
> data from Taruma, Loukotka (1949:58) parenthetically mentions two lexemes
> which resemble Chibchan forms, which he assumes to be possible borrowings
> in Taruma due to Chibchan influence. Nonetheless, the possibility and the
> nature of a connection of Chibchan and Taruma has never been assessed
> more systematically. This is astonishing, since there are some intriguing
> parallels attested in basic vocabulary indeed. Compare, for instance,
> Proto-Chibchan /*kṹ/ ‘louse’ (Constenla Umaña 1981:397), Taruma *gu*
> ‘louse’; Proto-Chibchan /*bÌ-/ ‘star’ (Constenla Umaña 1981:416), Taruma
> *ɸiira* ‘star’; Proto-Chibcha /*kuí/ ‘arm’ (Constenla Umaña 361), Taruma
> *a-kuo* ‘arm’; Proto-Chibchan /*tu/ ‘tooth’ (Constenla Umaña 1981:424) (>
> Dorasque su ‘tooth’ (Lehmann 1920:163)), Taruma *a-su* ‘tooth’;
> Proto-Chibchan /*dù/ ‘bird’ (Constenla Umaña 1981:365) (> Dorasque *dul*
> ‘bird’ (Lehmann 1920:163), Atanques *súri* ‘bird’ (Celedón 1892:592)),
> Taruma *zuri* ‘bird’; Proto-Chibchan /*akIkI/ ‘old’ (Constenla Umaña
> 1981:403), Taruma *agigi* ‘grandmother’.
>             Parallels like these beg for further investigation. This talk
> discusses the possibility and the nature of a link between Taruma and
> Chibchan languages, mainly considering lexical data. In order to assess the
> parallels, the methods applied here are internal reconstruction and the
> comparative method.
>
> References:
> Adelaar, Willem F. H. with the collaboration of Pieter C. Muysken. 2004.
> The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
> Celedón, Rafael. 1892. Vocabulario de la lengua de Atanques. In Actas del
> 8 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, 591-599. Paris.
> Constenla Umaña, Adolfo. 1981.Comparative Chibchan Phonology. Ph.D.
> dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
> Gilij, Filippo Salvadore. 1782. Saggio di storia Americana o sia storia
> naturale, civile, e sacra. De’regni, e delle provincie Spagnuole di
> Terra-ferma n’ell America meridionale. Tomo III. Della religione, e delle
> lingue degli Orinochesi, e di altri Americani. Rome: Luigi Perego Erede
> Salvioni.
> Greenberg, Joseph H. 1987. Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford
> University Press.
> Jijón y Caamaño, Jacinto. 1940–1945. El Ecuador interandino y occidental
> antes de la conquista castellana. Quito: Editorial Ecuatoriana.
> Lehmann, Walther. 1920. Zentral-Amerika: Die Sprachen Zentral-Amerikas. (I.)
> Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
> Loukotka, Čestmír. 1949. La langue Taruma. Journal de la Société des
> Américanistes, 38: 53-65
>
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