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Alias		Yabarana, Yavarana, Yauarana, Mapoyo-Yavarana
KLASSIFIZIERUNG		Cariban, Venezuelan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
SPRACHENCODE		yar
DOWNLOAD		Als csv
WEITERE RESSOURCEN		OLAC-Suche
WEITERE KOMMENTARE		Ethnologue (2013) lists 4 languages in its Mapoyo-Yavarana subgroup of Cariban: Mapoyo [mcg] , Pémono [pev], Tamanaku [tmz], Yabarana [yar]. Other sources differ by considering some of these to be dialects of Mapoyo-Yawarana. Gildea (personal communication 2014) reports that until we get some more reliable data, it appears that there are/were three languages: †Tamanaku, Mapoyo (ethnonym Wanai, dialect †Pémono), and Yawarana (with alternate names Orechicano, Curachicano, Woquiare). (See also Gildea 2013.) Tamanaku is long extinct, with no attested speakers for at least a century, and therefore does not have an entry of its only in this Catalogue. Mapoyo and Yawarana are generally considered separate languages, each with its own entry in this Catalogue. However, there were just some old wordlists for Yawarana and almost nothing for Mapoyo. Marie-Claude Mattéi Muller went to the Mapoyo area in the 1970s and collected some data, from which she extracted a Mapoyo wordlist (Mattéi Muller1977a, 1977b). Mattéi-Muller and Henley (1990) published Mattéi-Muller’s comparative wordlists, comparing her Mapoyo data to the published Yawarana words; they found 80% cognacy between the two and suggested maybe they were dialects of a single language. In 1998, Mattéi-Muller did fieldwork with the Yawarana, where she played a 1970s tape of Mapoyo speakers, and the Yawarana speakers (i) had difficulty understanding, but recognized Mapoyo as very closely related, and (ii) recognized the manner of speech as that of an old woman living in an isolated village far upstream. She went to this old speaker, who turned out to be the last speaker of Pémono, which seems to have been a dialect of Mapoyo (Mattéi Muller 2003).

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Informationen von: “Personal communication about Mapoyo, Yawarana, Pémono, and Tamanaku” . Gildea, Spike

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MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER
"Nobody knows how many Yawarana speakers there are: Migliazza (1980) said 42, Mattéi Muller (2003) said about 50, and the latest census (2011) shows that, of the 300 who identified as ethnic Yawarana, about half (150) also designated themselves as speakers. Of course, what this designation means to these "speakers" is not known. I would guess we have less than 50, and perhaps less than 25 fluent speakers. Mattéi-Muller knows one couple who still uses the language every day in their home, so there is still a chance that we could do some real documentation if someone moves fast."

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ORTE: Venezuela

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Muttersprachler weltweit
MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER
Speaker number data: (E. Migliazza 1977).

20 (1977 E. Migliazza); ethnic population: 320 (Crevels 2007) (2013).

ORTE: Venezuela;

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG: Amazonas, Manapiare River basin, above San Juan de Manapiare.

WEITERE KOMMENTARE: Amazonas, Manapiare River basin, above San Juan de Manapiare.

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ORTE: Venezuela

Sicher gefährdet

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151
Muttersprachler weltweit
Ethnische Population
292

DATUM DER INFORMATION: 2001

ORTE: Venezuela

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5
Muttersprachler weltweit

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300
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ORTE: Venezuela

		Personal communication about Mapoyo, Yawarana, Pémono, and Tamanaku				Personal communication.				Gildea, Spike	Gildea, Spike. 2014. Personal communication about Mapoyo, Yawarana, Pémono, and Tamanaku			25?		10-99	"Nobody knows how many Yawarana speakers there are: Migliazza (1980) said 42, Mattéi Muller (2003) said about 50, and the latest census (2011) shows that, of the 300 who identified as ethnic Yawarana, about half (150) also designated themselves as speakers. Of course, what this designation means to these "speakers" is not known. I would guess we have less than 50, and perhaps less than 25 fluent speakers. Mattéi-Muller knows one couple who still uses the language every day in their home, so there is still a chance that we could do some real documentation if someone moves fast."	Spanish	Critically Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	14	15		Venezuela
16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis		SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub		35		10-99	Speaker number data: (E. Migliazza 1977). 20 (1977 E. Migliazza); ethnic population: 320 (Crevels 2007) (2013).		Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				Amazonas, Manapiare River basin, above San Juan de Manapiare.	Venezuela;	Amazonas, Manapiare River basin, above San Juan de Manapiare.
3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger					UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		300		100-999			Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Venezuela		5.3863,-66.0058
	2007	South America	Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages	103-196	C. Moseley		London & New York: Routledge			Mily Crevels	Crevels, Mily. 2007. "South America." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 103-196. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD		Not known										Venezuela
		World Oral Literature Project							http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			5		1-9			Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	2012	Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking	The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide	167-234	Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona		Mouton de Gruyter	Berlin		Crevels, Mily	Crevels, Mily. 2012. "Language Endangerment in South America: The Clock Is Ticking." In The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Hans Henrich Hock et al.. 167-234. Mouton de Gruyter.		292	151	2001	100-999			Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Venezuela

Yawarana

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Sprachdokumentationsforum

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25?

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35

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151

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5

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300

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Yawarana

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Sprachdokumentationsforum

Ernsthaft gefährdet

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

25?

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20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

35

Not known

Sicher gefährdet

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

151

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20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

5

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20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Diskussion

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