Sirionó (Mbia Cheë;
also written as Mbya, Siriono) is a
Tupian
The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani.
Homeland and ''urheimat''
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(Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400
Sirionó people
The Sirionó are an indigenous people of Bolivia. They primarily live in the forested northern and eastern parts of Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments of Bolivia.[monolingual
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) and 120 Yuqui in eastern
Bolivia
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(eastern
Beni
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and northwestern
Santa Cruz departments) in the village of
Ibiato (Eviato) and along the
Río Blanco in farms and ranches.
Phonology
Sirionó has phonemic contrasts between front, central, and back, close and mid vowels, i.e.
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.
External links
Sirionó dictionary online from IDS(select simple or advanced browsing)
PROEL: Lengua Sirionó(bible translation)
Environment, Culture, and Sirionó Plant NamesLenguas de Bolivia(online edition)
Sirionó(
Intercontinental Dictionary Series
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Tupi–Guarani languages
Languages of Bolivia
Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area
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