Araona or Cavina is an indigenous language spoken by the South America Araona people ; about 90% of the 90 Araona people are fluent (W. Adelaar). Use of the language amongst the tribe is considered vigorous although Spanish knowledge is increasing. The Araonans live in the headwaters of the Manupari river in northwest Bolivia . Their language has a dictionary and portions of the Bible have been translated into Araona.
6-622: Capachene and Machui are dialects of either Araona or of Cavineña . The Araona people and their language were long ignored in the written, European-based historical traditions, long after the Conquest of the Americas and what is now Bolivia. The first written historical mention of the Araona people and their language comes from the Franciscan missionaries Manuel Mancini and Fidel Codenach in
12-530: Is an indigenous language spoken on the Amazonian plains of northern Bolivia by over 1,000 Cavineño people . Although Cavineña is still spoken (and still learned by some children), it is an endangered language. Guillaume (2004) states that about 1200 people speak the language, out of a population of around 1700. Nearly all Cavineña are bilingual in Spanish . The Cavineño people live in several communities near
18-645: The Beni River , which flows north from the Andes. The nearest towns are Reyes (to the south) and Riberalta (to the north). Where the practical orthography is different from IPA , it is shown between angled brackets: Examples in the morphology and syntax sections are written in the practical orthography. Verbs do not show agreement with their arguments, but are inflected for tense, aspect, mood, negation, and aktionsart , among other categories. There are six tense, aspect, or mood affixes: The following examples show
24-793: The area between the Manorimi and Monopare Rivers. In 1965, Protestant Evangelical activists and missionaries from the SIL International created a permanent settlement and cooperated with the Araona communities to establish links with other indigenous groups. The Araona phonemic inventory consists of four vowels ( /a/ , /e/ , /i/ , /o/ ), and 19 consonants. Like other Tacanan languages, Araona has four periodic tense markers: diurnal -tseiñe , nocturnal -sisa , auroral -huena and vesperal -niapona , with cognates in Cavineña Cavine%C3%B1a language Cavineña
30-540: The late 1800s, were unable to found any sort of mission in this area of the La Paz department because of the conditions on the ground. The Araona were the most populous ethnic group in the region of Colonia Nacional, and were one of the many indigenous groups who were displaced from their villages and used as slaves for the rubber industry at the end of the 19th century. Those who managed to survive and escape from servitude went on to establish themselves in various settlements in
36-424: The remote past and perfective affixes: I-ke 1SG - FM =bakwe = CONTR [e-kwe 1SG - GEN e-wane=tsewe] 1 -wife= ASSOC kanajara-kware rest- REM . PAST [e-kwe 1SG - GEN tujuri=ju]. mosquito.net= LOC I-ke =bakwe [e-kwe e-wane=tsewe] kanajara-kware [e-kwe tujuri=ju]. 1SG-FM =CONTR 1SG-GEN 1-wife=ASSOC rest-REM.PAST 1SG-GEN mosquito.net=LOC 'Me, I
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