Sirionó language

Sirionó (Mbia Cheë;^[3] also written as Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 Sirionó people (50 are monolingual) and 120 Yuqui in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments) in the village of Ibiato (Eviato) and along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

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Sirionó
Mbia cheë
Native to	Bolivia
Region	Beni Department, Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)
Ethnicity	Sirionó people, Yuqui people
Native speakers	300 (2012)^[1]
Language family	Tupian Tupí–Guaraní Guarayu Sirionó
Dialects	Sirionó Yuqui Jorá †
Official status
Official language in	Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `srq` – Sirionó `yuq` – Yuqui (Yúki) `jor` – Jorá (Hora)
Glottolog	`siri1279` Siriono–Jora `yuqu1240` Yuqui
ELP	Sirionó
	Yuki^[2]
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Phonology

Sirionó has phonemic contrasts between front, central, and back, close and mid vowels, i.e.

More information Front, Central ...

Sirionó vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Mid	e ẽ	ə ə̃	o õ
Open		a ã

More information Labial, Alveolar ...

Sironió Consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Post-Alv.	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	t͡ʃ	c	k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b
Continuant			s	ʃ	j	w	h
Trill			r

Notes

References

Firestone, Homer L. (1965). Description and Classification of Sirionó. London: Mouton.
Holmberg, Allan. (1958). The Sirionó. In J. Steward (Ed.), Handbook of South American Indians: The Tropical Forest Tribes (Vol. 3, pp. 455–463. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Holmberg, Allan. (1969). Nomads of the Long Bow: The Sirionó of Eastern Bolivia (rev. ed.). Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.
Ingham, John M. (1971). Are the Siriono Raw or Cooked? American Anthropologist, 73 (5), 1092-1099.
Priest, Perry N.; Priest, Anne M.; & Grimes, Joseph E. (1961). Simultaneous Orderings in Sirionó (Guaraní). International Journal of American Linguistics, 27, 335-44.
Scheffler, Harold W. (1972). Systems of Kin Classification: A Structural Typology. In P. Reining (Ed.), Kinship Studies in the Morgan Centennial Year (pp. 111–33). Washington, D.C.: Anthropological Society of Washington.
Scheffler, Harold W.; & Lounsbury, Floyd G. (1971). A Study in Structural Semantics: The Sirionó Kinship System. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

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