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Sirionó (Mbia Cheë; also written as Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 Sirionó people (50 are
monolingual Monoglottism ( Greek μόνος ''monos'', "alone, solitary", + γλῶττα , "tongue, language") or, more commonly, monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language, as opposed to multilingualism. ...
) and 120 Yuqui in eastern
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(eastern Beni 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. * Priest, Perry (1968). Phonemes Of The Sirionó Language. ''Linguistics 6(41)''. 102-108. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. * 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
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PROEL: Lengua Sirionó


(bible translation)
Environment, Culture, and Sirionó Plant Names

Lenguas de Bolivia
(online edition)
Sirionó
( Intercontinental Dictionary Series) Tupi–Guarani languages Languages of Bolivia Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area {{Tupian-lang-stub