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Ingá

Family: Quechuan
Region: South America
ISO 639-3: inb
Location: 1.00°, -76.86°
Notes: Lowland Inga is a distinct variant
Features: Basic Vocabulary
Flora Fauna Vocabulary
Cultural Vocabulary
Grammatical Data

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Data Sources: er, R. and Reed, R. 1992. Comparative vocabulary: selected words in indigenous languages of Colombia. ILV, Bogotá. Levinson, Stephen. 1974. Una gramática pedagógica del Inga (primera parte). ILV, Bogotá. Levinson, Stephen. 1972. The interrogative in Inga (Quechuan). IJAL 38:4, pp.260-4. Levinson, Stephen. 1976a. The Inga language. The Hague, Mouton. Levinson, Stephen. 1976b. Una gramática pedagógica del Inga (segunda parte). ILV, Bogotá. Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1976c. Estudios en inga. Serie Sintáctica 2. iii+207. Bogotá: Ministerio de Gobierno. Levinson, Stephen. 1978. Apuntes sobre la gramática Inga. Editorial Townsend. Parks, Roger. 1990. The Historical-Comparative Classification of Columbian Inga (Quechua). In Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 15:2. Tandioy Chasoy, Domingo and Levinsohn, Stephen H. and Maffla Bilbao, Alonso. 1978. Diccionario inga del valle de Sibundoy, Intendencia del Putumayo. Lomalinda: Editorial Townsend.

Basic Vocabulary (191)

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English	Spanish	Portuguese	Semantic Field	Part of Speech	Orthographic Form	Phonemicized Form	Gloss as in Source	Etymology Code	Proto-Form	Proto-Language	Loan Source	Wanderwort Status	Etyma Set	Etymology Notes	General Notes	Source

English	Spanish	Portuguese	Semantic Field	Orthographic Form	Phonemicized Form	General Notes	Source
1pl.excl	nosotros (exclusivo)	nós (exclusivo)	grammar				See Language page
1pl.incl	nosotros (inclusivo)	nós (inclusivo)	grammar	nukanchi	nukantʃi	no inclusive/exclusive distinction unless noted	See Language page
1sg	yo	eu	grammar	nuka	nuka	For pronouns: include bound/cliticized pronominal forms where significantly different from the free forms	See Language page
2pl	ustedes	vocês	grammar				See Language page
2sg	xx	xx	grammar	kam	kam		See Language page
3pl	ellos/ellas	eles/elas	grammar				See Language page
3sg	el/ella	ele/ela	grammar	pai	pai		See Language page
above	encima, arriba	acima	location	awama	awama		See Language page
again	de nuevo, otra vez	de novo	grammar	ikuti	ikuti		See Language page
all	todo	todos	other	tukui	tukui		See Language page
and	y	e	grammar				See Language page
ankle	tobillo	tornozelo	body	chiuka/shibka	tʃiuka/ʃibka		See Language page
armpit	axila, sobaco	axila	body				See Language page
ash	ceniza(s)	cinzas	environment	uchpa	utʃpa		See Language page
at	en, a	em, a	location				See Language page
back	espalda	costas	body	wasa	wasa		See Language page
bad	mal	mal	quality	millai	miʎai		See Language page
bark	corteza	casca	environment	ispingu, kara			See Language page
belly	barriga	barriga	body	wigsa	wigsa		See Language page
below	abajo, debajo	abaixo	location	ukupi	ukupi		See Language page
big	grande	grande	quality	atun	atun		See Language page
bite	morder	morder	body	kanii	kanii		See Language page
black	negro	preto	colour	iana	iana		See Language page
blood	sangre	sangue	body	iawar	iawar		See Language page
blow	soplar	soprar	body	pukui, abintai	pukui, abintai		See Language page
boil/pimple	espinilla, granos	espinha, borbulha	body	chiuka, shibka	tʃiuka, ʃibka		See Language page
bone	hueso	osso	body	tullu	tuʎu		See Language page
breast	pecho, seno	peito	body	chuchu	tʃutʃu		See Language page
breathe	respirar	respirar	body	samai kachai	samai katʃai		See Language page
burn	quemar	queimar	environment	rupachii	rupatʃii		See Language page
chew	masticar, mascar	mastigar	body	kastui	kastui		See Language page
child	niño, niña	criança	human	wambra	wambra		See Language page
climb	subir	subir	motion	sikai	sikai		See Language page
cloud	nube	nuvem	environment	puiu	puiu		See Language page
cold	frío	frio	quality	chiri	tʃiri		See Language page
come	venir	vir	motion	samui	samui		See Language page
cook	cocinar	cozinhar	impact	ianui	ianui		See Language page
correct/true	verdad, de veras	verdade	quality	sutipa	sutipa		See Language page
count	contar	contar	mental	willai	wiʎai		See Language page
cry	llorar	chorar	mental	wakai	wakai		See Language page
cut/hack	cortar	cortar	impact	kuchui, lisiachii	kutʃui, lisiatʃii		See Language page
day	día	dia	time	puncha	puntʃa		See Language page
die/be dead	morir	morrer	state	wañui	wañui		See Language page
dig	cavar	cavar	impact	jutkuchii, utkuchii	jutkutʃii, utkutʃii		See Language page
dingo/wolf			fauna	sacha alku (sacha=wild; alku=dog)	satʃa alku (satʃa=wild; alku=dog)		See Language page
dirty	sucio	sujo	quality	mapa	mapa		See Language page
dream	soñar	sonhar	mental	muskui	muskui		See Language page
drink	beber, tomar	beber	body	upiai	upiai		See Language page
dry	seco	seco	quality	tusta	tusta		See Language page
dull/blunt	sin filo, mocho, desafilado, embotado, romo	maçante, desamolado, não afiado	quality				See Language page
dust	polvo	poeira	environment	ñutui (to become dust)	ñutui (to become dust)		See Language page
ear	oreja	orelha	body	ringri	ringri		See Language page
earth/soil	tierra	terra	environment	alpa	alpa		See Language page
eat	comer	comer	body	kastui	kastui		See Language page
egg	huevo	ovo	fauna	rundu	rundu		See Language page
eye	ojo	olho	body	ñawi	ñawi		See Language page
faeces	heces, mierda, excremento, estiércol	fezes	body	isma, kaka	isma, kaka		See Language page
fall	caer	cair	motion	urmai	urmai		See Language page
far	lejos	longe	quality	karu sachuku	karu satʃuku		See Language page
fat/grease	grasa	gordura	body	wira	wira		See Language page
father	padre, papá	pai	kinship	taita	taita		See Language page
fear	miedo	medo	mental	manchai	mantʃai		See Language page
feather	pluma	pena	fauna				See Language page
fingernail	uña	unha	body	sillu			See Language page
fire	fuego	fogo	environment	nina	nina		See Language page
flow	fluir	fluir	motion				See Language page
flower	flor	flor	environment	tugtu	tugtu		See Language page
fly	volar	voar	motion				See Language page
fog	niebla, neblina	nevoeira, bruma, neblina	environment	shachima	ʃatʃima		See Language page
foot	pie	pé	body	chaki	tʃaki		See Language page
fruit	fruta	fruta	flora	chiwilla, maku	tʃiwiʎa, maku		See Language page
good	bueno	bom	quality	alli, alli uma	aʎi, aʎi uma		See Language page
green	verde	verde	quality	mana pukuska, chawa			See Language page
grow	crecer	crescer	state	susukaiai, wiñai	susukaiai, wiñai		See Language page
hair (of head)	cabello	cabelo	body	agcha	agtʃa		See Language page
hand	mano	mão	body	maki	maki		See Language page
head	cabeza	cabeça	body	uma	uma		See Language page
hear	oír	ouvir	mental	uiai	uiai		See Language page
heart	corazón	coração	body	sungu			See Language page
heavy	pesado	pesado	quality	llasa	ʎasa		See Language page
hide	esconder	esconder	motion	pakai	pakai		See Language page
hit	golpear, pegar	bater	impact	makai, takachii	makai, takatʃii		See Language page
hold	correr, asegurar, sostener	segurar	other	sinchiachii	sintʃiatʃii		See Language page
hot	caliente	quente	quality	kunu, rupa			See Language page
how?	como	como	grammar				See Language page
if	si	se	grammar				See Language page
in/inside	dentro, adentro	dentro	location	ukupi	ukupi		See Language page
intestines	intestinos	intestinos	body	chunchullu	tʃuntʃuʎu		See Language page
itch	hormiguear, sentir comezón	coçar	body				See Language page
kill	matar	matar	impact	wañuchii	wañutʃii		See Language page
know/be knowledgeable	saber, conecer	saber, conhecer	mental	iachai	iatʃai		See Language page
lake	lago	lago	environment	kucha	kutʃa		See Language page
laugh	reír	rir	mental	asii	asii		See Language page
leaf	hoja	folha	environment	panga	panga		See Language page
left/left hand	izquierdo	esquerdo	location/body	lluki	ʎuki		See Language page
leg/foot	pierna	perna	body	changa	tʃanga		See Language page
lie down	acostarse, echarse	deitar	motion	sirinii	sirinii		See Language page
lightning	rayo, relámpago	relampago	environment	rilampa (Spanish loan)	rilampa (Spaniʃ loan)		See Language page
live/be alive	vivir	viver, morar	body	kausgai	kausgai		See Language page
liver	hígado	figado	body	sungu	sungu		See Language page
long	largo	comprido, longo	quality	suni	suni		See Language page
louse	piollo, piojo	piolho	fauna	usa	usa	order Phtiraptera	See Language page
lung	pulmón	pulmão	body	iura sungu	iura sungu		See Language page
man/male	hombre	homem	human	kari	kari		See Language page
meat/flesh	carne	carne	fauna	aicha	aitʃa		See Language page
moon	luna	lua	environment	killa	kiʎa		See Language page
mother	madre, mamá	mãe	kinship	mama	mama		See Language page
mountain/hill	montaña, colina, loma, cerro	morro, serra	environment	tula			See Language page
mouth	boca	boca	body	simi	simi		See Language page
name	nombre	nome	human	suti	suti		See Language page
nape	base del cuello, nuca	nuca	body	kunga	kunga		See Language page
near/close	cerca de	perto	quality	kailla	kaiʎa		See Language page
neck	cuello	pescoço	body	kunga	kunga		See Language page
new	nuevo	novo	quality	musu	musu		See Language page
night	noche	noite	time	tuta	tuta		See Language page
no/not	no	não	grammar	mana	mana		See Language page
nose	nariz	nariz	body	singa	singa		See Language page
old	viejo	velho	quality	mauka	mauka		See Language page
one	uno	um	number	sug	sug		See Language page
open/uncover	abrir	abrir	other	paska	paska		See Language page
other	otro	outro	grammar	sug, sugka	sug, sugka		See Language page
pain/painful/sick	dolor, doloroso, enfermo	dor, doloroso, doente	body	ungug, dipurdundi	ungug, dipurdundi		See Language page
person/human being	persona	pessoa	human	runa	runa		See Language page
pound/beat	machacar, golpear	bater	impact	kapii	kapii		See Language page
rain	lluvia	chuva	environment	tamia	tamia		See Language page
red	rojo	vermelho	colour	pichi, puka	pitʃi, puka		See Language page
right/right hand	derecha	direita	location/body	allima	aʎima		See Language page
road/path	camino	caminho	manufacture	ñambi	ñambi		See Language page
root	raíz	raiz	flora	angu	angu		See Language page
rotten	podrido	podre	quality	wabka	wabka		See Language page
sand	arena	areia	environment				See Language page
say	decir	dizer	mental	nii	nii		See Language page
scratch	rascar	rasgar	impact	aspii	aspii		See Language page
see	ver	ver	mental	kawai	kawai		See Language page
sharp	afilado, filudo, filoso	afiado	quality	filu (Spanish loan)	filu (Spaniʃ loan)		See Language page
shoot	tirar, disparar, balear	atirar	impact				See Language page
short	corto	curto	quality	umutu	umutu		See Language page
shoulder	hombro	ombro	body				See Language page
shy/ashamed	tímido, vergonzoso	timido, com vergonha	mental	kui sungu	kui sungu		See Language page
sit	sentar(se)	sentar	state	tiarii	tiarii		See Language page
skin	piel	pele	body	kaɾa	kaɾa		See Language page
sky	cielo	céu	environment				See Language page
sleep	dormir	dormir	body	puñui	puñui		See Language page
small	pequeño	pequeno	quality	amchi	amtʃi		See Language page
smoke	humo	fumaça	environment	kusni	kusni		See Language page
sniff/smell	olfatear, oler	cheirar	body	asnai	asnai	primarily transitive	See Language page
spit	escupir	cuspir	body	tukai	tukai		See Language page
split	partir, dividir	rachar, dividir, partir	impact	bandai, bandiai	bandai, bandiai		See Language page
squeeze	estrujar, exprimir	espremer	impact	surkui	surkui		See Language page
stab/pierce	apuñalar, acuchillar	apunhalar	impact				See Language page
stand	estar de pié	ficar em pé	state	saiarii, pininai	saiarii, pininai		See Language page
star	estrella	estrela	environment				See Language page
steal	robar	roubar	other	aisai, sisai	aisai, sisai		See Language page
stick/wood	palo	pau, vara	flora	kaspi	kaspi		See Language page
stone	piedra	pedra	environment	rumi	rumi		See Language page
suck	chupar	chupar	body	ubsii	ubsii		See Language page
sun	sol	sol	time	indi			See Language page
sweat	sudar	suor, suar	body	jumbii	jumbii		See Language page
swell	hincharse	inchar	body	pungii	pungii		See Language page
swim	nadar	nadar	motion	waitai	waitai		See Language page
tail	cola, rabo	rabo	body	chupa	tʃupa		See Language page
that	ese/esa	esse	grammar	chi/chin	tʃi/tʃin		See Language page
thick	grueso, gordo, espeso	grosso	quality	sangu	sangu		See Language page
thin	delgado	fino	quality	amchi, chalangu	amtʃi, tʃalangu		See Language page
think	pensar	pensar	mental	iuiai	iuiai		See Language page
this	este/esta	este	grammar	kai	kai		See Language page
three	tres	tres	number	kimsa	kimsa		See Language page
throat	garganta	garganta	body	gargiru (Spanish loa?)	gargiru (Spaniʃ loa?)		See Language page
throw	tirar, lanzar	atirar, jogar	impact	flichai (Spanish loan)	flitʃai (Spaniʃ loan)		See Language page
thunder	truenos	trovão	environment	triwinu (Spanish loan)	triwinu (Sp loan)		See Language page
tie up/fasten	atar, amarrar	amarrar	impact	wangui, watai	wangui, watai		See Language page
tongue	lengua	lingua	body	kallu	kaʎu		See Language page
tooth	diente	dente	body	kiru	kiru		See Language page
turn	girar, volter, torcer	virar	other	tallii	taʎii	may be transitive or intransitive	See Language page
two	dos	dois	number	iskai	iskai		See Language page
vomit	vomitar	vomitar	body	kibnai, kimnai	kibnai, kimnai		See Language page
walk	caminar, andar	andar	motion	purii	purii		See Language page
water	agua	agua	environment	iaku	iaku		See Language page
wet	mojado	molhado	quality	juku	xuku		See Language page
what?	que, qué	que	grammar	ima (relative)/imatak (interrogative)	ima (relative)/imatak (interrogative)		See Language page
when?	cuando	quando	grammar	imauatak	imauatak		See Language page
where?	donde	onde	grammar	maipi	maipi		See Language page
white	blanco	branco	colour	iura, lanku (Spanish loan)	iura, lanku (Spaniʃ loan)		See Language page
who?	quien, quién	quem	grammar	pi (reltive)/pitak (interrogative)	pi (reltive)/pitak (interrogative)		See Language page
wife	esposa	esposa	kinship	warmi	warmi		See Language page
wind	viento	vento	environment	waira	waira		See Language page
wing	ala	asa	body				See Language page
woman/female	mujer	mulher	human	warmi	warmi		See Language page
work	trabajar	trabalhar	other	trabajai (Spanish loan)	trabajai (Spaniʃ loan)		See Language page
yawn	bostezar	bocejar	body				See Language page
yellow	amarillo	amarelo	colour	killu	kiʎu		See Language page


1pl.excl
1pl.incl
1sg
2pl
2sg
3pl
3sg
above
again
all
and
ankle
armpit
ash
at
back
bad
bark
belly
below
big
bite
black
blood
blow
boil/pimple
bone
breast
breathe
burn
chew
child
climb
cloud
cold
come
cook
correct/true
count
cry
cut/hack
day
die/be dead
dig
dingo/wolf
dirty
dream
drink
dry
dull/blunt
dust
ear
earth/soil
eat
egg
eye
faeces
fall
far
fat/grease
father
fear
feather
fingernail
fire
flow
flower
fly
fog
foot
fruit
good
green
grow
hair (of head)
hand
head
hear
heart
heavy
hide
hit
hold
hot
how?
if
in/inside
intestines
itch
kill
know/be knowledgeable
lake
laugh
leaf
left/left hand
leg/foot
lie down
lightning
live/be alive
liver
long
louse
lung
man/male
meat/flesh
moon
mother
mountain/hill
mouth
name
nape
near/close
neck
new
night
no/not
nose
old
one
open/uncover
other
pain/painful/sick
person/human being
pound/beat
rain
red
right/right hand
road/path
root
rotten
sand
say
scratch
see
sharp
shoot
short
shoulder
shy/ashamed
sit
skin
sky
sleep
small
smoke
sniff/smell
spit
split
squeeze
stab/pierce
stand
star
steal
stick/wood
stone
suck
sun
sweat
swell
swim
tail
that
thick
thin
think
this
three
throat
throw
thunder
tie up/fasten
tongue
tooth
turn
two
vomit
walk
water
wet
what?
when?
where?
white
who?
wife
wind
wing
woman/female
work
yawn
yellow

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Flora Fauna Vocabulary (133)

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English	Spanish	Portuguese	Semantic Field	Part of Speech	Linnean Name	Orthographic Form	Phonemicized Form	Gloss as in Source	Etymology Code	Proto-Form	Proto-Language	Loan Source	Etymology Notes	Wanderwort Status	Etyma Set	Range of Term	Word Structure	Word Structure Notes	Classifier	Classifier Notes	Hypernym	Source	Association with Social Categories	Ritual/Mythologically Significant	Ritual Notes	Food Source	Food Notes	Medicinal	Medicinal Notes	How Collected	Who Collects	How Prepared	Psychotropic	Psychotropic Notes	Traded	Trade Notes	Distribution	Habitat	Dangerous	Ethnobiology Notes	Species Notes	General Notes

English	Spanish	Portuguese	Semantic Field	Linnean Name	Orthographic Form	Phonemicized Form	Source	Distribution	General Notes
achiote, anatto	achiote	urucum	flora-fauna	Bixa orellana	mandur	mandúr(H&R)	See Language page	secondary scrub vegetation and indigenous gardens	shrub
agouti (black agouti, black-rumped agouti)	Guatusa Negra, Añuje, Agutí (black-rumped), picure, jochi colorado	cutia	flora-fauna	Dasyprocta spp.			See Language page
alligator, black caiman	babilla; cachirre	jacaré	flora-fauna	Melanosuchus niger, Caiman schlerops; Paleosuchus sp.			See Language page	Throughout Amazonia	Port term reportedly borrowed from Tupi
Amazon dolphin	bufeo, delfín, tonina (del Orinoco)	boto cor-de-rosa	flora-fauna	Inia geoffrensis			See Language page	Downstream of major rapids and waterfalls
Amazon tree-grape	uva de monte, uvilla (Peru), puruma, caime, caimarona (and variants; Col.)	cucura	flora-fauna	Pourouma cecropiifolia			See Language page	grows wild in Western Amazon basin; cultivated in Colombia since pre-Colombian times	a tree; not a true grape
anaconda	anaconda, boa, boa acuática grande	sucuri	flora-fauna	genus Eunectes			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
angleworm	lombriz	minhoca	flora-fauna	order Opisthopora	murkilla		See Language page
ant (generic)	hormiga	formiga	flora-fauna	Formicidae		aɲángu(H&R)	See Language page
anteater	oso hormiguero; tapia pelejo or pelejo chico for Cyclopes didactylus	tamanduá	flora-fauna	Myrmecophaga tridactyla (giant anteater); Cyclopes didactylus (silky anteater)			See Language page	Widespread Amazonian lowlands
armadillo	armadillo, carachupa (Peru), yangunturi (Peru for Giant armadillo)	tatu	flora-fauna	family Dasypodidae; e.g. Priodontes maximus (Giant armadillo), Dasypus novemcinctus, Dasypus kappleri	matiwaja	matiwáxa(H&R)	See Language page	Widespread in Amazonia
arrow cane, wildcane	caña flecha, caña brava, caña isana	cana para flechas, frecheira, Cana-do-rio	flora-fauna	Gynerium sagittatum		wíru(‘cane’, H&R)	See Language page	tropical regions, especially river banks	plant
avocado	palta, aguacate	abacate	flora-fauna	Persea americana			See Language page	secondary scrub vegetation and indigenous gardens	tree
açai palm	huasí (Peru), asahi, manaca (Ven), asaí, palmiche (Colombia)	açaí	flora-fauna	Euterpe sp.			See Language page	floodplains, swamp; esp. northern Amazonia
banana, plantain	banano, banana, cambur, bellaco, variedad de plátano	banana	flora-fauna	Musa sp.	pupu	andútʃi(‘green plantain wrapped in leaves so it will ferment’, H&R)	See Language page		Names for banana/plantain may be derived from bastard plantain by semantic shift.
bat	murciélago	morcego	flora-fauna	Chiroptera spp.	chimbilaku	túta síki(H&R)	See Language page
beans	frijoles, frejol, caraotas (negras, rojas, blancas)	feijão	flora-fauna	Phaseolus spp.	purutu		See Language page		plant
bird	pajaro, ave	passaro	flora-fauna		pisku		See Language page
bitterwood	tortuga caspi, pretina (Peru for tree and tumpline); carahuasca (Peru)	envira	flora-fauna	Duguetia sp. OR Fusaea longifolia OR Guatteria chrysopetala			See Language page	secondary forests, native to Brazil	tree
black palm	bacaba, mapora, pusui, patabá	bacaba	flora-fauna	Oenocarpus bacaba			See Language page	Mature forests of Rio Negro and Upper Amazon	may be confused in some entries with O. bataua
blowfly/housefly	mosca	mosca	flora-fauna	Diptera	chuspi	tʃúspi (H&R)	See Language page
boa	boa; mantona (red-tailed boa); boa de altura	jiboia	flora-fauna	family Boidae, subf. Boinae			See Language page
bottle-gourd (vine) or calabash (tree)	calabazo, calabaza; auyama (Dominican Republic and Venezuela), ayote (parts of Central America), zapallo (parts of South America), tutumo/totumo/totuma (Cresc tree), huingo (Peru for Crescentia cujete), tapara	cabaça	flora-fauna	Crescentia cujete (round variety - tree); (Cucurbita) Lagenaria siceraria (bottle variety - vine)	sacha puru (Crescentia)	púru('gourd', H&R)	See Language page	indigenous gardens	plant; tree
brazil nut	castaña	castanha do para (B. excelsa); castanha de cutia (C. edulis)	flora-fauna	Bertholletia excelsa [cf. Couepia edulis 'castanha do cutia']			See Language page	1) Couepia: restricted area within Brazil, Rio Purus basin and middle Solimões. 2) Bertholletia: elev: consistently about 200m; mature forests. Widely distributed from Peru, E. Colombia, Brazil to Nicaragua.	tree
brown woolly monkey	Mono Lanudo Común, Choro, Churucu, mono choro (Peru), mono lanudo cafe, barrigudo de Humboldt	macaco barrigudo	flora-fauna	Lagothrix lagothricha			See Language page
bullet ant, lesser giant hunter ant	conga, hormiga yanabe (Colombia), isula (Peru), Hormiga Veinticuatro	tocandira	flora-fauna	Paraponera clavata	iana añangu	jana aɲangu (lit. 'black ant'?)	See Language page
butterfly, moth	mariposa	borboleta	flora-fauna	order Lepidoptera			See Language page
capybara	Capibara, Carpincho, Ronsoco	capivara	flora-fauna	Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris			See Language page
cará tuber, purple or white	camote, sachapapa	cará roxo, branco	flora-fauna	Dioscorea sp.			See Language page	secondary scrub vegetation; forest clearings	plant
cashew	anarcado, castaña de cajú, nuez de la India, marañon, cajú, merey (Venezuela)	caju	flora-fauna	Anacardium occidentale / giganteum			See Language page	secondary scrub vegetation and indigenous gardens	tree; most sources will not distinguish between occidentale and other varieties
centipede	ciempiés	centopéia	flora-fauna	class Chilopoda	pasag chakiiung		See Language page
cicada	cigarra, chicharra	cigarra	flora-fauna	super fam. Cicadoidea	chapuli		See Language page
cipó vine	tamishi, bejuco, yare	cipó	flora-fauna	Heteropsis spp.			See Language page	secondary forest, floodplain	vine
coca	coca	coca	flora-fauna	Erythroxylum coca			See Language page	secondary scrub vegetation. lower alt. of eastern Andes	plant
cockroach	cucaracha	barata-do-mato	flora-fauna	order Blattaria			See Language page
collared peccary	sajino, pecarí de collar, jabalf, Javelina, Saíno, Pecarí de Collar	caititu, caetitu	flora-fauna	Pecari tajacu, Tayassu tajacu	saíno, sájnu/saxínu (H&R)		See Language page
cotamundi, coatimundi	Coatí, Tejón, Achuni, zorro guache	quati	flora-fauna	genus Nasua			See Language page
cotton	algodón	algodão	flora-fauna	Gossypium (barbadense: long fibers; hirsutum: short fibers)			See Language page	secondary scrub vegetation	plant; some sources may confound with kapok Ceiba pentandra (esp. if a single gloss for 'cotton' is given')
crab	cangrejo	caranguejo	flora-fauna	infraorder Brachyura	kangariju (Spanish loan)		See Language page
cricket	saltón, grillo	grilo	flora-fauna	family Gryllidae			See Language page
curassow	mitu, montete (Peru), paujil/panjuil (Peru), paujil de Salvin (Peru for Mitu salvini)	mutum	flora-fauna	Crax sp., Nothocrax sp.		tʃúmbu (H&R)	See Language page	Amazonia
deer	venado	veado, cariacu	flora-fauna	family Cervidae, esp. Odocoileus virginianus	taruka, chuntaruku	tarúka(H&R)	See Language page
dog (camp, domestic)	perro	cachorro	flora-fauna	Canis famililaris	alku	álku (H&R)	See Language page	Not native; widespread
dog (wild; bush dog)	sachaperro, Perro de Monte, Zorro Vinagre, Guanfando; Zorro Ojizarco, Zorro Negro, Perro de Orejas Corta	cachorro-do-mato	flora-fauna	Speothos venaticus; Atelocynus microtis	sach alku		See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
dove	paloma	pomba	flora-fauna	family Columbidae			See Language page
duck	pato	pato, marreco	flora-fauna	Anatidae family	iaku pato (wild duck) (Spanish loan)		See Language page
edible palm-dwelling larva (palm weevil)	suri, mojojoy	larva, broca-do-coqueiro, aramandaiá	flora-fauna	Rhynchophorus sp.			See Language page
electric eel	anguila eléctrica	poraquê	flora-fauna	Electrophorus electricus			See Language page
firefly, lightning bug	lampírido, luciérnaga (Peru), añañahui (Peru), cocuyo (attributed Taino origin)	vagalume	flora-fauna	fam: Elateridae, Fengodidae, Lampyridae	nina kuru	nina kuru	See Language page
fish (generic)	pez	peixe	flora-fauna		chalwa	tʃálwa (H&R)	See Language page
fish poison, barbasco	barbasco, matapez (Colombia)	timbó	flora-fauna	Lonchocarpus spp.			See Language page	secondary forests and secondary srcrub vegetation	shrub/tree
flea	pulga	pulga	flora-fauna	order Siphonaptera	piki	píki (H&R)	See Language page
genipap	jagua, majagua - Colombia, caruto, xagua - Venezuela, bigrande - Bolivia, huito, yaguayagua - Peru, ygualti - Nicaragua, maluco - Mexico	genipapo, jenipapo	flora-fauna	Genipapa americana			See Language page	widespread lowland SA	shrub
giant otter	Lobo Grande de Río, nutria gigante, lutria	ariranha	flora-fauna	Pteronura brasiliensis		jáku álku (='river dog')	See Language page
grass	hierba, pasto	capim, grama	flora-fauna	(generic)		úgsa(H&R)	See Language page
gray-winged trumpeter	Grulla, Trompetero Ala Gris	jacamim	flora-fauna	Psophia crepitans			See Language page	Northern Amazonia (N of Solimões), not in northern Colombia; Dark-winged trumpeter is found south of Solimões
great egret	Garza Blanca, Guyratî	Garça-Branca-Grande	flora-fauna	Ardea alba			See Language page	Widespread South America
green acouchi	Guatín, Punchana, curi, picurito rabudo, picurito rabilargo	cutiara	flora-fauna	Myoprocta pratti	kui		See Language page
guan	pava, pucacunga (Peru), pava de Spix (Peru)	jacu	flora-fauna	Penelope sp.			See Language page	Different types have different localized ranges
hallucinogenic snuff	vilca, cebil, yopo	paricá, yopo	flora-fauna	Anadenanthera sp. or virola			See Language page
hallucinogenic vine, banisterium, ayahuasca	ayahuasca, yage	ayahuasca, caapi	flora-fauna	Banisteriopsis caapi	aia waska (aia=spicy; waska=vine)	ámbi, wáska, súma (=túgtu ‘pretty flower’, H&R)	See Language page	semi-domesticated, native to Amazonian basin, esp. NW	vine
hawk	halcón, gavilán	gavião	flora-fauna	family Accipitridae	animas pisku, ilili		See Language page
honeybee	abeja	abelha	flora-fauna	Apis mellifera; Tetragonisca angustula; Trigona amazonensis	abijun (Spanish loan)	abix (H&R)	See Language page
horse	caballo	cavalho	flora-fauna	Equus caballus	kaballu	kabaʎu	See Language page
hot pepper	ají, pimentón/pimiento rojo, pucunucho (Peru), charapilla (Peru)	pimenta	flora-fauna	Capsicum sp., principally chinensis and frutescens	uchu	útʃu(‘chili pepper’, H&R)	See Language page	secondary scrub vegetation, indigenous garden	plant
howler monkey (red-handed)	mono aullador, mono coto (Peru)	guariba	flora-fauna	Alouatta belzebul [or other Alouatta sp.]	kutu	kutu	See Language page
hummingbird	colibrí, picaflor (Peru)	beija-flor	flora-fauna	family Trochilidae	kindi	kíndi (H&R)	See Language page	Widespread
iguana	iguana, garipiares (Colombia)	camaleão	flora-fauna	Iguana sp.		tortúga (Spanish loan, H&R)	See Language page		iguana' is reportedly from Arawak iwana
inga	guaba, guamo, guama, shimbillo (Peru)	inga	flora-fauna	Inga spp.	pakai		See Language page	Secondary scrub vegetation and indigenous gardens. North and South America (Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Suriname, Colombia)
insect (generic)	insecto	insecto	flora-fauna	generic			See Language page
jaguar	yaguar, yaguareté, jaguar, otorongo (Peru), tigre (Peru)	onca	flora-fauna	Panthera onca		tígri(SP loan, H&R)	See Language page
japurá	oreja de murcielago	japurá	flora-fauna	Erisma japura			See Language page		large tree
kapok	ceiba, huimba, lupuna (Peru for Ceiba sp.)	sumaumeira	flora-fauna	Ceiba pentandra			See Language page	northern South America and central America; common in disturbed areas	tree
kingfisher	martín pescador, catalan (Peru)	martim-pescador	flora-fauna	family Alcedinidae			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
leaf-cutter ant	Colombia: zampopo, hormiga arriera; Venezuela: bachaco; Peru: curuhuinse	saúva	flora-fauna	Atta sp.			See Language page
macaw	ara, guacamaya	Arara	flora-fauna	family Psittacidae; Ara sp.		wakamáju (H&R)	See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
maize, corn	mazorca, maiz	milho	flora-fauna	Zea mays	sara	sára(H&R)	See Language page	widespread, esp. in river floodplains	plant
manatee	vaca marina, manatí	peixe-boi	flora-fauna	Trichechus sp.			See Language page
mandi catfish	maparate (used in Peru for some types of catfish, including Auchenipterus sp.), cunchi (used in Peru for some types of catfish), bagre (catfish)	mandi	flora-fauna	Auchenipterus sp.			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
manioc (bitter or generic)	yuca brava	mandioca	flora-fauna	Manihot esculenta			See Language page	not generally cultivated in western (subAndean) Amazon. Arroyo-Kalin (2010) argues for a correlation with distribution of dark earths, mostly formed after 1AD, and the modeled-incised pottery tradition.	Provides more starch and is more pest-resistant than the sweet variety, but requires much processing. Arroyo-Kalin (2010) proposes that bitter type was developed from sweet through post-ceremic agricultural intensification (motivated by high starch yield
manioc (sweet)	yuca, caribe	macaxeira	flora-fauna	Manihot esculenta	rumu (not specified as bitter or sweet)	rúmu (‘general’, H&R)	See Language page	Primary staple in western/subAndean Amazonia, less important elsewhere	No processing required, but lower starch yield and pest resistance than bitter variety
miriti palm	moriche (Col, Ven), aguaje (Col, Peru), achual, miriti	buriti	flora-fauna	Mauritia flexuosa			See Language page	Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela; in and near swamps	trunks contain sago-like starch
mosquito	mosquito, zancudo	mosquito, carapana	flora-fauna	Anopheles sp.	chuspi (mosquito)		See Language page
moth	mariposa nocturna, polilla	mariposa	flora-fauna	order Lepidoptera			See Language page
mouse, rat	ratón	camundongo, rata	flora-fauna	Mus musculus	ukucha	ukútʃa (H&R)	See Language page
mushroom	champiñón, hongo	cogumelo	flora-fauna	(any edible generic)	kallamba		See Language page		prioritize generic term that includes any edible species
neotropical otter (small)	Nutria, Lobo de Agua, lobito de rio, perro de agua (Colombia)	lontra	flora-fauna	Lontra longicaudis	iaku alku (iaku=water, river;alku=dog)		See Language page
opossum	zarigüeya, rabipelado, zorro, zorrillo	mucura	flora-fauna	family Didelphidae			See Language page
owl (large)	búho, lechuza	corujão	flora-fauna	order Strigiformes	kuskungu, killa mama (killa=moon; mama=mother)	kusúngu ('owl', H&R)	See Language page	Widespread
paca (lowland)	Guanta, Paca, Majaz, majás (Peru), labba (Guyana)	paca	flora-fauna	Cuniculus paca (Agouti paca is sometimes used as well although cuniculus is the correct term.)			See Language page
pacu fish	palometa, garopita, garopa, curhuara (Peru)	pacu	flora-fauna	Mylossoma sp.			See Language page
palm for roof thatch	pui, irapay, hoja de irapay, caraná	caraná	flora-fauna	Mauritiella armata OR Lepidocaryum tenue (irapay), Mauritius carana			See Language page	Mauritia carana is limited principally to the Rio Negro and Upper Orinoco regions; dry catinga forests	palm
parrot	loro real, loro (Sp. form is a loan from Carib)	papagaio	flora-fauna	Amazona amazonica	uritu	urítu (H&R)	See Language page	Widespread
paxiuba palm	pona, huacrapona, cashapona, macanilla, pachiuba	paxiuba	flora-fauna	Iriartea exorrhiza OR Iriartea deltoidea			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia	palm
peach palm, pejibaye palm	chontaduro (Col, Ecuador); pipire (Col); pijuayo (Peru), pijiguao (Ven); tembe (Bol)	pupunha	flora-fauna	Bactris gasipaes			See Language page
peanut	maní (may be loan from Taino Arawak), cacahuete	amendoim	flora-fauna	Arachis hypogaea			See Language page		plant
pineapple	piña	abacaxi	flora-fauna	Ananas comosus		tʃíhõ(H&R)	See Language page		plant
pirana	piraña, caribe	piranha	flora-fauna	subfamily Serrasalmidae			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
porcupine	puerco espín, erizo (Peru), casha cushillo (Peru)	cuandu, porco-espinho	flora-fauna	family Erethizontidae	michichin		See Language page
potato	papa	batata	flora-fauna	Solanum tuberosum	papa	rúmu (‘general’, H&R)	See Language page	secondary scrub vegetation	compare entries for sweet potato
potato, sweet potato	camote, batata dulce, batata, cumara	batata-doce	flora-fauna	Ipomoea batatas	kumal, kumala	kumála(H&R)	See Language page		plant
praying mantis, stick insects	mantis religiosa	louva-a-deus	flora-fauna	order Mantodea, family Mantidae			See Language page
rubber tree (sorva)	caucho, siringa, shiringa	seringa, borracha	flora-fauna	Hevea sp.			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia	tree
scorpion	escorpión; alacran	escorpião	flora-fauna	order Scorpiones			See Language page
seje palm	ungurahui (Peru), palma de seje, milpesos, patabá	patoá, patuá	flora-fauna	Jessenia bataua, aka Oenocarpus bataua			See Language page	mostly north of Equator; common in Amazonia	may be confused with O. bacaba - compare entries
sloth	pereza, pelejo (Peru), perezoso (Peru)	macaco preguica	flora-fauna	Choloepus sp., Bradypus sp.			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
small lizard	lagartija	calango	flora-fauna	order Squamata			See Language page
snail	caracol, churo (Peru)	caracol	flora-fauna	class Gastropoda	churu		See Language page
snake (generic)	culebra, serpiente	cobra	flora-fauna		amarun	kulíbra (SP loan, H&R)	See Language page
snake (poisonous generic) or rattlesnake	víbora (Peru), jergón (Peru), yarara	jararaca	flora-fauna	Bothrops jararaca/atrox			See Language page	Widespread South America
speckled catfish	surubí, pintadillo	surubim, sorubim	flora-fauna	Pseudoplatystoma sp.			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
spider	araña	aranha	flora-fauna	Arachnidae, Araneae	bajna	baxna	See Language page
squash	calabaza, calabacines, auyamas, zapallos, huingo (Peru)	abóbora	flora-fauna	Cucurbita sp.	sapallu		See Language page		plant
squirrel	ardilla, danta (Ven)	serelepe, quatipuru, esquilo	flora-fauna	family Sciuridae	ardita (Spanish loan)		See Language page
stingray (generic)	rayas látigo, raya	arraia	flora-fauna	Potamotrygon sp.			See Language page
tannia, yautia	huitina (Peru), ñame	taioba branca	flora-fauna	Xanthosoma spp.		kumála(‘yam’, H&R)	See Language page
tapir	sachavaca, danta	anta	flora-fauna	Tapirus terrestris	sacha wagra (Spanish loan)	dánta (SP loan, H&R)	See Language page
termites, white-ants	comején (Peru), termitas	cupim	flora-fauna	order Isoptera			See Language page
tick	garrapata	carrapato	flora-fauna	superfam Ixodoidea			See Language page
tigerfish	taraira, guabina, huasaco (Peru)	traíra	flora-fauna	Hoplias sp.			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
tinamou	tinamu, perdiz, gallineta	inambu, inhambu	flora-fauna	family Tinamidae			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
toad	sapo	sapo	flora-fauna	order Anura	tilili, wambui	sápu (SP loan), tilíli (H&R)	See Language page
tobacco	tabaco	tabaco	flora-fauna	Nicotiana tabacum			See Language page		plant
tortoise (red foot, yellow foot/giant)	tortuga, morrocoy, motelo	jabutí, tartaruga	flora-fauna	Yellow-footed: Geochelone denticulata; Red-footed: Geochelone carbonaria			See Language page	Widespread
toucan	tucán, pinsha (Peru)	tucano	flora-fauna	Ramphastos sp.	pikudu (Spanish loan?)	pikúdu (H&R)	See Language page	Widespread Amazonia
tree	árbol	arvore	flora-fauna		sacha	sátʃa(H&R)	See Language page
tufted capuchin monkey	mono negro (Peru), Machín Negro, Maicero Cachón, mono maicero	macaco prego	flora-fauna	Cebus apella			See Language page
ucuqui	yugo, caimitillo del monte (Peru)	ucuqui	flora-fauna	Pouteria ucuqui			See Language page	native to NW Amazonia, found primarily in Vaupes and Caqueta regions	other species of Pouteria exist and have much-used edible fruit; these can be subsituted where relevant
vulture	buitre, gallinazo, rinahui (Peru)	urubu	flora-fauna	family Cathartidae	kurikingi	gabilán (SP loan, H&R)	See Language page	Widespread South America
wasp	avispa; specific type: ronzapa/ronsapa	caba	flora-fauna	order Hymenoptera, sub: Apocrita			See Language page
white-fronted capuchin	Machín Blanco, mono blanco, Maicero Cariblanco, mono blanco (Peru)	Caiarara	flora-fauna	Cebus albifrons			See Language page
white-fronted spider monkey	Machin Blanco, Mono Araña de Vientre Amarillo, maquisapa (Peru), braceadora (Colombia)	macaco aranha, coatá, quatá	flora-fauna	Ateles belzebuth/paniscus			See Language page
white-lipped peccary	Chancho de Monte, Cariblanco, Huangana	queixada	flora-fauna	Tayassu pecari			See Language page
woodpecker	pájaro carpintero, carpintero	pica-pau	flora-fauna	family Picidae			See Language page	Widespread Amazonia

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English	Spanish	Portuguese	Semantic Field	Part of Speech	Orthographic Form	Phonemicized Form	Gloss as in Source	Etymology Code	Proto-Form	Proto-Language	Loan Source	Wanderwort Status	Etyma Set	Etymology Notes	Word Structure	Word Structure Notes	General Notes	Source

English	Spanish	Portuguese	Semantic Field	Orthographic Form	Phonemicized Form	General Notes	Source
afterworld, land of dead, Heaven	tierra do los muertos	terra dos mortos	culture-mythology				See Language page
arrow	flecha	flecha	subsistence tool	plicha (Spanish loan)	plitʃa (Spanish loan)	hunting, warfare	See Language page
axe/stone axe	hacha (de piedra)	machado (de pedra)	subsistence tool			especially for clearing fields	See Language page
bait for fishing	cebo, carnada para pescar, empate (Peru)	isca	subsistence tool			can refer to worms; more generic	See Language page
basin/bowl	tazón, plato hondo, taza	tijela	culture-material	batia (Spanish loan?)	batia (Spanish loan?)		See Language page
basket (general)	canasta, canasto, cesta	cesto	culture-material	saparu	saparu		See Language page
basket, small	canasta, canasto, cesta	cesto pequeno, tampado	culture-material	puti	puti		See Language page
bead	abalorio, mostacilla, cuenta, gota, puca; necklace=collar	miçanga	culture-material	wallka	waʎka		See Language page
bed	cama	cama	culture-material	kawitu, puñudiru	kawitu, puñudiru		See Language page
bench, seat	banco, silla, asiento	banco	culture-material	banku (Spanish loan)	banku (Spanish loan)		See Language page
blowgun	cerbatana, pucuna (Peru)	zarabatana	subsistence tool	budukira	budukira	currently limited to certain groups (favoring h-g orientation, e.g. Nadahup) within RN region	See Language page
boomerang/throwing stick (generic)			subsistence tool				See Language page
bottle	botella	garrafa	acculturation	butilla	butiʎa		See Language page
bottom grinding stone			manufacture	rumi	rumi	if different word from top grinding stone	See Language page
bow	arco	arco	subsistence tool	árku (Sp., H&R)	árku (Sp., H&R)	arco	See Language page
broom	escoba	vassoura	culture-material				See Language page
canoe	canoa	canoa	transport				See Language page
cat	gato	gato	acculturation	michi	mitʃi		See Language page
chicken	gallina	galinha	acculturation	atawalpa	atawalpa		See Language page
chief/leader	jefe, cacique	chefe	culture-mythology	iaia	iaia		See Language page
clothing	ropa	roupa	culture-mythology	churaridiru	tʃuraridiru		See Language page
club	garrote, cachiporra	clava, porrete	subsistence tool				See Language page
Curupira (spirit type)	Curupira, Madremonte	Curupira	culture-mythology			malignant forest spirit, covered with long hair, feet turned backward; in Upper Rio Negro region	See Language page
dart (blowgun)	dardo, birote (Peru), bala (Peru)	dardo, seta	subsistence tool			hunting and warfare	See Language page
deity/powerful spirit/culture figure	dios(es), deidad	divinidade, figura mítica	culture-mythology			In RN region, frequently translates as 'Bone-Son', 'One on the bone', etc.	See Language page
digging stick			subsistence tool				See Language page
dream	sueño, soñar	sonho, sonhar	culture-mythology	muskui	muskui		See Language page
drum	tambor	tambor	culture-mythology				See Language page
drum (large signal)	tambor, manguaré, maguaré (Colombia)	tambor	culture			Used to be used by Tukanoan peoples (and others?), sound carried for long distances	See Language page
fan	abanico	abanador, abano	subsistence tool			esp. for fanning a cooking fire	See Language page
feather headdress	plumaje, corona de plumas	enfeite/capacete de penas	culture-mythology	llaugtu, walka	ʎaugtu, walka		See Language page
fence, palisade	cerco	cerca	other	kincha	kintʃa	may be related to defense/warfare?	See Language page
fermented drink	masato, chicha	caxiri, chicha	culture	aswa	aswa	prioritizes manioc beer where distinction is made	See Language page
fetish, charm	fetiche, encanto, filtro de amor, pusanga	feitiço, puçanga	culture-mythology				See Language page
fireplace	hogar	lareira	other				See Language page
firewood	leña	lenha	other	iamta	iamta		See Language page
fish (with fish-poison)	pescar con barbasco, barbasquear	pescar com timbó; tinguijar	food				See Language page
fish (with line)	anzuelear, pescar con linea	pescar (com linha)	food	ansuilai (Spanish loan)	ansuilai (Spanish loan)		See Language page
fishing line	cordel/cuerda p/ pescar, sedal, tanze	linha de pesca	subsistence tool				See Language page
fishtrap	trampa de peces, trampa	matapi, cacuri	subsistence tool	tuglla	tugʎa		See Language page
flat bread, cassava bread	pan de yuca, casabe/cazabe	beiju	food			usually manioc; agriculture, but also can be made from certain wild seeds/fruits	See Language page
flour/meal from manioc	fariña, mañoco (Venezuela); harina	farinha	food			agriculture	See Language page
flute	flauta, quena (Peru)	flauta	culture-mythology			multiple types? japurutu, deer-bone, etc.	See Language page
game animal	caza, animal de caza	caça, animal de caça	food			Interesting correlation to 'fish' in Tukanoan languages	See Language page
ghost (of dead person)/evil spirit	espíritu malo, espíritu maligno, fantasma, demonio	espirito	culture-mythology	kuku	kuku		See Language page
gourd (dipper/bowl)	cucharón, pate (Peru), totomo, totuma, totumo	cuia	subsistence tool	mati, puru	mati, puru		See Language page
grater	rallador, rallo	ralador, ralo	subsistence tool			esp. for grating manioc, but can be used for other things as well	See Language page
grave	tumba, sepultura, sepulcro	sepultura, sepulcro, cova	culture-mythology				See Language page
grid of sticks for smoking meat or placing objects (shelf)	barbacoa	jirau	subsistence tool				See Language page
griddle for cooking flatbread	tiesto (Colombia), budare (Venezuela), tortera (Peru)	forno para beiju	subsistence tool	kallana	kaʎana	agriculture?	See Language page
gun	arma, escopeta	espingarda, fusil	acculturation	karabina	karabina		See Language page
hammock	hamaca, chinchorro	rede	culture-material				See Language page
hat	sombero	chapéu	dress	chuta	tʃuta		See Language page
healer	curandero	benzador, curandeiro, kumu (Tukano)	culture-mythology	iacha	iatʃa	Refers to a lower-level healer; in RN region, most older men in a village have this capacity, and command a repertoire of healing spells. Power is primarily for good, whereas the true shaman is capable of malignant acts as well.	See Language page
hollow log/trough for beer-making	canoa para chicha	cocho de caxiri	narcotics	bungu artisa	bungu artisa		See Language page
honey	miel	mel	food	miski	miski	only gathered in wild throughout Amazonia?	See Language page
house			other	wasi	wasi		See Language page
hunt	cazar	caçar	food	tarukiai (to hunt deer)	tarukiai (to hunt deer)		See Language page
knife	cuchillo	faca	culture-material	kuchillu (Spanish loan)	kutʃiʎu (Spanish loan)		See Language page
loincloth	taparrabos, guayuco, pampanilla	tanga, tapa-sexo	dress				See Language page
machete	machete	facão	culture-material	kuchillu (Spanish loan)	kutʃiʎu (Spanish loan)		See Language page
mortar	mortero	pilão	subsistence tool				See Language page
paddle/oar	remo	remo	transport				See Language page
paint body, body paint	pintura corporal	pintura corporal	culture-mythology				See Language page
panpipe	carrizo, zampoñas, flautas de pan, rondadora	caniço, flauta de pã	culture-mythology				See Language page
paper	papel	papel	acculturation				See Language page
pestle	pilón, mano de mortero, mazo, moledor	mão de pilão	subsistence tool				See Language page
pipe for tobacco	pipa	cachimbo	other				See Language page
plate	plato	prato	culture-material	kallana	kaʎana		See Language page
policeman	polícia	policía	acculturation				See Language page
pot	olla, pote	panela, vasilha	subsistence tool	manga	manga		See Language page
rattle	matraca, maraca	marico, chocalho	culture-mythology	maraka (Sp.?)	maraka (Sp.?)		See Language page
resin	resina, brea, copal	resina, brea, breu	subsistence tool	karaña	karaña		See Language page
ritual song cycle (kapiwaya)	kapiwaya	capiwaya	culture-mythology				See Language page
rope/string	mecate, cuerda, soga	corda	culture	waska	waska		See Language page
salt	sal	sal	food	kachi	katʃi		See Language page
school	escuela	escola	acculturation	iachaikui wasi 'knowledge house'	iatʃaikui wasi 'knowledge house'		See Language page
shaman, healer	chamán, brujo	xaman, pajé, feiticeiro	culture-mythology	sinchi (= 'powerful')	sintʃi (= 'powerful')	In RN region, there is typically one person per village (if that) who is a full-fledged 'shaman'. He is very much a specialist and has considerable power to cure, as well as power to curse. He is respected and feared. Shamans are thought to turn themselv	See Language page
shoes	zapatos	sapatos	dress				See Language page
skirt	falda, saya, fustan, pollera	saia	culture-material	miglla	migʎa		See Language page
soldier	soldado	soldado	acculturation				See Language page
song (generic)	canción, canto	canção	culture-mythology	takii (traditional/festival)	takii (traditional/festival)		See Language page
spear	lanza	lança	subsistence tool				See Language page
spearthrower			subsistence tool				See Language page
starch (tapioca, other)	almidón	goma de tapioca	food				See Language page
stone for lighting fires	piedra para hacer fuego	pedra para acender fogo	culture-material				See Language page
sugarcane/sugar	azúcar, caña de azúcar	açucar (de cana)	acculturation				See Language page
tapioca drink, mingau	cahuana, caguana	mingau	food			agriculture	See Language page
tattoo	tatuaje, tatu	tatuagem	culture-mythology				See Language page
thatch/roof	crisneja	palha, caraná	culture-material				See Language page
tipiti (manioc squeezer)	tipiti, matafrio, sebucán, exprimador, prensa para yuca	tipiti	food			word of Tupi origin; agriculture: specifically for squeezing poison out of manioc	See Language page
top grinding stone	metate, mano; piedra de moler	metate, mano	manufacture			use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone	See Language page
tripod for washing manioc	trípode	tripé	subsistence tool			agriculture	See Language page
venom for darts, poison	veneno	curare	subsistence tool			hunting, currently is falling out of use in Vaupés region, associated primarily with h-g groups (but this may be recent?)	See Language page
wax	cera	cera	other				See Language page
woven strainer/sieve	colador tejido, cedazo (Peru), cernedor (Peru)	peneira, cumatá	subsistence tool	susunga	susunga	agriculture? commonly used for sifting dry manioc flour	See Language page
yurupari, jurupari (or any flutes forbidden to women)	yurupari	jurupari	culture-mythology			a ritual complex in various parts of Amazonia involving sacred flutes/trumpets, forbidden to women.	See Language page

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Category	Grammatical Feature	Grammatical Feature: Notes	Feature Status	Grammatical Notes	Source
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs	Productive NN compounding	Noun compounds created from two noun phrases are common and systematically produced	no info	more likely not	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs	Productive VV serialization (without compounding)	Verb roots can be combined in a single predicate without markers of subordination (distinct from subordinating construction) or distinct inflection	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs	Productive VV compounding	Serial verb constructions involve chaining of roots together in one morphophonological word	no	most examples are gerund+verb, but other constructions are possible	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs	Verb-adjunct (aka light verb) constructions	There is a set of semantically weak verbs used in complex verbal constructions, e.g. 'take a nap'	no info
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs	Auxiliary verb(s)	There are verbs that accompany main verbs of clauses and take grammatical marking not expressed by main verbs	yes	Verbs of motion are used as auxiliaries.	Levinson 1976:74
Morphology - General	Verbal fusion (2+ categories marked by portmanteau morphemes on verb)	Verb combines two or more categories (tense, aspect, mood, person, number, etc.) in portmanteau morphemes{ [ignore proclitics unless they are fused with values other than person/number]	no	However, situation in which first person acts upon second person in which a single verbal suffix /-iki/ marks both subject and object. This is the only case of verbal fusion I have found. So, fusion is limited to this suffix only.	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Morphology - General	Inflection manifested by replacement of segmental or suprasegmental phonemes	Stem change, tone	no	stem change	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Morphology - General	Verbal synthesis (1+ inflectional categories marked by verbal affixes)	Morphological complexity in verbs - multiple inflectional affixes in a single verb word	yes		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1978
Morphology - General	Prefixing/suffixing inflectional morph: strongly prefixing	There are many more prefixes than suffixes	no	variety of affixes, including infixes	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1978
Morphology - General	Prefixing/suffixing inflectional morph: strongly suffixing	There are many more suffixes than prefixes	yes		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1978
Morphology - General	Prefixing/suffixing inflectional morph: roughly equal or one weakly preferred	The numbers of suffixes and prefixes are not notably different	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1978
Morphology - General	Reduplication: full	The full morpheme is reduplicated	no	However, the repetition of a verb is used to express emphasis. Repetition of words is also used to express a repeated or continuos action.	Levinson 1976b:88
Morphology - General	Reduplication: partial	Only part of the morpheme is reduplicated	no info	more likely not	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Morphology - Incorporation	Incorporation of nouns into verbs is a productive intransitivizing process	Verb contains nominal segment	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Morphology - Incorporation	Productive incorporation of other elements (adjectives, locatives, etc.) into verbs	Like noun incorporation, but incorporated elements are not nouns	no	especially prepositions and temporal expressions	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Adpositions mark core NPs	Prepositions or postpositions mark subjects, objects, beneficiaries/recipients	no		Parks 1990:76
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: number of cases	Note the number of grammatical relations that may be morphologically marked on the noun	7		Parks 1990:76
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: only non-core arguments morphologically marked	Subjects, objects, beneficiaries/recipients NOT marked, but other grammatical relations are	no		Parks 1990:76
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: symmetrical	All NPs marked if in appropriate syntactic relation; no distinction in marking based on semantics (type of entity)	no		Levinson 1978:7
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: asymmetrical	Semantically defined subset of NPs marked for case, e.g. animates	yes	Specificity is required to marked object NPs with accusative case. Unspecific NPs do not get accusative case.	Levinson 1978:7
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: suffix or postpositional clitic		yes		Levinson 1978:6-7, Parks 1990:76
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: prefix or prepositional clitic		no		Parks 1990:76
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: infix or inpositional clitic		no		Parks 1990:76
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: stem change		no		Parks 1990:76
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: tone		no		Parks 1990:76
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions	Case: comitative = instrumental	Same marking for 'with a person' and 'with an instrument'	yes		Levinson 1978:7
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity	Definite or specific articles	Definite = particular referent known to both speaker and addressee; specific = particular referent known to speaker only	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity	Marker of definiteness distinct from demonstratives	Focus on articles/markers whose primary function is to mark definiteness	no	The third person pronoun can also be used as a marker of definiteness to show respect for the referent	Levinson 1974:13
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity	Indefinite or non-specific article	or marker	no info
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity	Inclusive/exclusive: in free pronominals	Inclusive =us + you, exclusive = us but not you	no		Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity	Inclusive/exclusive: in verbal inflection (bound)		no		Levinson 1978:11-23
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity	Distance contrasts in demonstratives (number)	Note the number of distances in the demonstrative system	2	it appears that their system is similar to Spanish "aquí, aquel, este, esto, esta, etc.", however the data does not state this directly--this inference is, so far, borne out by the data	Levinson 1974:13
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity	Other contrasts in demonstratives (visibility, elevation, etc.)		no		Levinson 1974:13
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Noun classes/genders	Nouns are organized into sets with distinct morphological treatment; usually affects all nouns and involves agreement within the NP	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Number of noun classes/genders	Note the (approximate) total number of noun classes/genders	no info
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Noun classifiers (distinct from noun classes/genders)	Nouns are organized into sets, but only a limited set of nouns may be implicated, with no or limited agreement marking. If only numeral classifiers exist, indicate yes but explain.	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Sex is a relevant category in noun class(ification) system for animates	Masculine, feminine, neuter	no	There is some evidence of grammatical gender, but data is inconclusive so far; will note this and return to the question once a more definite answer can be given	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Sex is a relevant category in noun class(ification) system for inanimates		no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Animacy (w/o reference to sex) is a relevant category in the noun class(ification) system	Animate/inanimate, human/non-human	yes	/-dero/ is used to desiganted generic inanimate nouns while /-g/ is used to designate generic animate nonus	Levinson 1976b:2
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Sex/gender distinction only in 3rd person pronouns	add in notes section whether gender is present in other PNs or not in any PNs; consider with reference to pronouns and person marking only	no		Levinson 1974:26
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Shape is a relevant category in the noun class(ification) system for animates		no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Shape is a relevant category in the noun class(ification) system for inanimates		no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	"Repeater" classifiers	Where no distinct classifier exists, a copy of the noun itself may function in the morphosyntactic classifier "slot"	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Numeral classifiers (specific to numerals)	Special classifier forms that occur only with numerals	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification	Classifiers used as derivational suffixes to derive nouns	Verb + classifier = 'thing for doing V, thing that does V, etc.'	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Categories - Number	Singular number may be marked on the noun	Often occurs in a small subset of nouns if a single entity is referred to, e.g. insects that normally occur in groups	no	not noted in the data	Levinson 1974:26
Nominal Categories - Number	Plural affix on noun		yes	add suffix "-cuna" to the noun root	Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Categories - Number	Plural marked by stem change or tone on noun		no		Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Categories - Number	Plural marked by reduplication of noun		no		Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Categories - Number	Plural word/clitic		no	-cuna	Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Categories - Number	Plural marked on human or animate nouns only		no	marked on all nouns	Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Categories - Number	Pronominal plural: stem + nominal plural affix	Pronouns use a nominal plural affix not specific to pronouns	yes	Except for the first person plural pronoun	Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Categories - Number	Unique associative plural marker	e.g. 'John and his associates', 'John and them'	yes	This nominal suffix "expresses an intimate relation or close association between two or more people or objects."	Levinson 1976b:54
Nominal Categories - Numerals	Base-2	At least some part of the system involves base-2	no		Levinson 1974:40
Nominal Categories - Numerals	Base-5	At least some part of the system involves base-5	no		Levinson 1974:40
Nominal Categories - Numerals	Base-10	At least some part of the system involves base-10	yes		Levinson 1974:40
Nominal Categories - Numerals	Other base (specify)	4, 20, etc.	no		Levinson 1974:40
Nominal Categories - Numerals	Etymological transparency in any numerals under 5	e.g. two = 'eye-quantity'	no		Levinson 1974:40
Nominal Categories - Numerals	Numerals do not go above 5	'Many' or some other non-exact term used	no		Levinson 1974:40
Nominal Categories - Numerals	Numerals do not go above 10	'Many' or some other non-exact term used	no		Levinson 1976b:55
Nominal Categories - Other nominal	Tense or aspect inflection on non-verbal predicates	i.e. nominal or adjectival	no		Levinson 1978:5-23
Nominal Categories - Other nominal	Person inflection on non-verbal predicates	i.e. nominal or adjectival	no		Levinson 1978:5-23
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories	Gender in 3sg pronouns		no		Levinson 1974:26
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories	Gender in 3pl pronouns		no		Levinson 1974:26
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories	Gender in 1st and/or 2nd person pronouns		no		Levinson 1974:26
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories	Formal/informal distinction in pronouns	Polite pronominal variants or differential avoidance of pronouns	no		Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories	Reflexive pronouns	e.g. English 'himself', Spanish 'se'; distinct form(s) from basic (non-reflexive) pronominals; distinct from reflexive verbal affix	no info	depending on the context, can be an infix [-ri-] or [-ra-] (noted in data)
Nominal Syntax - Adjectives	Underived adjectives	There are underived adjectives which do not have counterparts in other word classes	yes		Levinson 1974:73-8
Nominal Syntax - Adjectives	Gender inflection on adjectives within the NP	There is gender agreement/concord (animate/inanimate or masc/fem, etc.) within the NP, e.g. la casa blanca, el perro blanco	no		Levinson 1974:30
Nominal Syntax - Derivation	Productive nominalizing morphology: action/state (arrive/arrival)	There is a morpheme which derives an event from a verb	yes	This is the past particple which is used as a deverbal nominalizer suffix	Levinson 1976b:17-8
Nominal Syntax - Derivation	Productive nominalizing morphology: agentive (sing/singer)	There is a morpheme which derives an agent or subject from a verb	yes	There is also a nominalizer for instruments /-nga/	Levinson 1978:5
Nominal Syntax - Derivation	Productive nominalizing morphology: object (sing/song)	There is a morpheme which derives a patient or object from a verb	yes		Levinson 1978:6
Nominal Syntax - Derivation	Productive verbalizing morphology	There is a morpheme which derives a verb from a noun or adjective	yes	It indicates a change of state	Levinson 1976b:31-2
Nominal Syntax - Other	NP coordination and comitative phrases marked differently	'John and Mary went to market' is marked differently from 'John went to market with Mary'	no info
Nominal Syntax - Possession	Pronominal possessive affixes: prefix on N	alienable/inalienable?	no		ILV 1976:35-6
Nominal Syntax - Possession	Pronominal possessive affixes: suffix on N	alienable/inalienable?	yes		ILV 1976:35-6
Nominal Syntax - Possession	Head/dependent marking in possessive NP: dependent	e.g. 'the boy-'s dog'	yes		ILV 1976:35-6
Nominal Syntax - Possession	Head/dependent marking in possessive NP: head	e.g. 'the boy his-dog'	no		ILV 1976:35-6
Nominal Syntax - Possession	Possessive classifiers	There are special classifiers that occur with possessed entities	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability	Morphological marking of inalienable possession	Where inalienable possession differs from alienable, the former takes a morphological marker (may include an associated free particle/pronoun)	yes	This is a nominal suffix which is used for inalienable possession	Levinson 1976b:54
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability	Morphological marking of alienable possession	Where inalienable possession differs from alienable, the latter takes a morphological marker (may include an associated free particle/pronoun)	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability	Default marker for inalienably possessed nouns if unpossessed	An inalienable noun that is in an unpossessed state must have a derivational affix or associated form	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability	Inalienable possession of kin terms	'my-father' but *father	no info	more likely yes	Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability	Inalienable possession of body parts (human/animal)	'my-leg' but *leg	no info
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability	Generic human nouns are obligatorily bound/possessed	Human nouns must co-occur with another noun (e.g. Hup-man, NonIndian-woman, but *man)	no		Levinson 1978:5-11
Phonology - Segmental	Pre-/post-nasalized stops	Analysis posits that the stop is the most relevant underlying phoneme. Comment in notes on whether the nasal contour is understood as a phonetic (allophonic) effect, or is phonologically contrastive.	no		Levinson 1976:23-25
Phonology - Segmental	Glottalized/ejective consonants	Phonemic contrast [NOT counting glottal stop/fricative]	no		Levinson 1978:1
Phonology - Segmental	Palatalized stops	Phonemic contrast	no	There are no palatalized consonants but there are palatal consonants. Hoever, Levinson 1976 considers the palatal lateral as an palatalized alveolar lateral	Levinson 1978:1
Phonology - Segmental	Phonemic vowel length	Does the language have long and short vowels?	no		Levinson 1976:23
Phonology - Segmental	Phonemic glottalization/laryngealization of vowels		no		Levinson 1978:1
Phonology - Segmental	Complex onsets	Onset consists of more than one consonant phoneme	yes	Complex onsets are optional; simple onsets preferred	Levinson 1976:21
Phonology - Segmental	No codas	*(C)VC [no also equals highly constrained]	no		Levinson 1976:21
Phonology - Segmental	Word-final coda required	Do all syllables end in a consonant?	no	codas are optional *(C)#	Levinson 1976:21-2
Phonology - Suprasegmental	Contrastive tones	Note how many contrastive tones	no		Levinson 1976:19-32
Phonology - Suprasegmental	Contrastive stress	Does stress occur on different syllables with meaning difference?	yes	Stress is highly predicatable though	Levinson 1976:29
Phonology - Suprasegmental	Nasalization property of morpheme or syllable	In contrast to nasalization as a property of segments	no info
Phonology - Suprasegmental	Nasal spreading across some morpheme boundaries	Do some affixes or other morphemes take the nasal/oral properties of the root they attach to?	no info
Phonology - Suprasegmental	Vowel harmony		no	vowel inventory has only 3 sounds; differences in two dialects, but no harmony found	Levinson 1976:19-32
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking in full NPs: nominative-accusative w/ marked accusative	Objects of transitive clauses ('P') have a unique marker, while subjects of transitive ('A') and intransitive ('S') clauses are unmarked or share a different marker from that occurring on objects	yes		Levinson 1978:7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking in full NPs: nominative-accusative w/ marked nominative	Subjects of transitive and intransitive clauses share a marker, while objects of transitives are unmarked	no		Levinson 1978:7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking in full NPs: ergative-absolutive	Subjects of intransitive clauses and objects of transitives share a unique marker, while subjects of transitive clauses are unmarked or have a different marker	no		Levinson 1978:7, Levinson 1974:15-7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking in full NPs: tripartite	Intransitive subjects, transitive subjects, and transitive objects all receive distinct case markers	no		Levinson 1978:7, Levinson 1974:15-7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking in full NPs: active-inactive	Subjects of intransitive clauses are treated two different ways: like subjects of transitives if they are more agent-like (e.g. he jumped), and like objects of transitives if they are more patient-like (e.g. he fell asleep)	no		Levinson 1978:7, Levinson 1974:15-7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking of pronouns: marked accusative		yes	It is the same alignment as for full NPs	Levinson 1978:7, Levinson 1974:15-7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking of pronouns: marked nominative		no		Levinson 1978:7, Levinson 1974:15-7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking of pronouns: ergative-absolutive	yes, no, mixed, other	no		Levinson 1978:7, Levinson 1974:15-7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking of pronouns: tripartite		no		Levinson 1978:7, Levinson 1974:15-7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of case marking of pronouns: active-inactive		no		Levinson 1978:7, Levinson 1974:15-7
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of verbal person-marking: nominative-accusative	Same as above, for pronominal affixes/clitics on verbs	yes	Subjects are cross referenced on the verb	Levinson 1978:13, Levinson 1974:27
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of verbal person-marking: ergative-absolutive	yes, no, mixed, other	no		Levinson 1978:13, Levinson 1974:27
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of verbal person-marking: active-inactive		no		Levinson 1978:13, Levinson 1974:27
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of verbal person-marking: hierarchical	Marking of A and P depends on their relative ranking on a hierarchy (usually 1>2>3 or 2>1>3)	no		Levinson 1978:13, Levinson 1974:27
Simple Clauses - Alignment	Alignment of verbal person-marking: split	More than one of the above systems is represented in person marking, depending on e.g. person (e.g. 1/2 vs. 3), tense-aspect value, main vs. subordinate clause type, etc.	yes	It seems that defineness and referentiality play a roll in the alignment system. No referential or indefinite objects do not get accusative case-marking. Thus, the aligment is neutral in these instances.	Levinson 1978:7
Simple Clauses - Desiderative expressions	Grammaticalized verbal desiderative	Indicates that the subject desires to carry out the action denoted by the verb (distinct from verb 'want', but may be grammaticalized from it)	yes	However, this verbal suffix is restricted in the way that the verb can take only a small set of objects as its arguments like "meat", "water", etc.	Levinson 1976b:14
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives	Polar questions: interrogative particle	Yes/no questions distinguished from declaratives by interrogative particle	yes		Levinson 1972:260-1
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives	Polar questions: verb morphology	Yes/no questions distinguished from declaratives by interrogative verb morphology	no	This morpheme is attached to	Levinson 1972:260-1
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives	Polar questions: word order	Yes/no questions distinguished from declaratives by word order (esp. subject-verb inversion)	no		Levinson 1972:260-4
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives	Polar questions: intonation only	Yes/no questions distinguished from declaratives by intonation only	no		Levinson 1972:260-1
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives	Content questions: word order differs from declaratives	Content questions distinguished from declaratives by word order (esp. subject-verb inversion) as well as by presence of Q-word (who, what, etc.)	no		Levinson 1972:260-4
Simple Clauses - Negation	Clausal negator is a preposed element	Clausal negator is a preposed element	yes		Levinson 1974:39-40
Simple Clauses - Negation	Clausal negator is a postposed element	Clausal negator is a postposed element	no		Levinson 1974:39-40
Simple Clauses - Negation	Negatives: affix	Negatives: affix	yes		Levinson 1974:39-40
Simple Clauses - Negation	Negatives: particle	Negatives: particle	yes		Levinson 1974:39-40
Simple Clauses - Negation	Negatives: auxiliary verb	Negatives: auxiliary verb	no		Levinson 1974:39-40
Simple Clauses - Negation	Negatives: double	Standard (non-emphatic) negation typically requires two morphemes, e.g. French 'ne V pas'	yes		ILV 1976:34-5
Simple Clauses - Negation	Distinct negative form for 'NP does not exist'		no info
Simple Clauses - Negation	Distinct negative expression 'I don't know'	Lexical expression or highly idiomatic phrase	no info
Simple Clauses - Other	Clause chaining	Clauses can be grouped such that only one bears most of the verb morphology, and the others are marked as to whether they share a subject with this reference clause.	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Simple Clauses - Other	Morphologically marked switch-reference system	There are special markers to indicate same vs. different subject when two clauses are combined	yes		Levinson 1987:27-9
Simple Clauses - Other	Morphologically marked distinction between simultaneous and sequential clauses	Morphology (usually on verb) distinguishes between clauses denoting events that occur at the same time or in sequence	yes		Levinson 1987:27-9
Simple Clauses - Predication	Predicate adjectives: verbal	Adjectives act like verbs in predicative position	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b
Simple Clauses - Predication	Predicate adjectives: nominal	Adjectives act like nouns in predicative position	no info
Simple Clauses - Predication	Zero copula for predicate nominals is possible	Predicate nominals may occur without a copula (i.e. grammatical in some circumstances, if not all)	no info
Simple Clauses - Predication	Headless relative clauses	Compare Eng 'the one that fell' (but in Eng 'one' could be considered a head)	no info
Simple Clauses - Predication	Headless relative clauses are the dominant or only form of relative clause	Relative clauses that form a constituent with a head noun (in a single noun phrase) are rare or nonexistent; some descriptions may refer to adjoined or correlative clauses.	no info
Simple Clauses - Predication	Relative clause may occur with a noun classifier/class marker	It may be unclear whether the classifier is the nominal head of the construction or is an agreement marker on the relative clause	no info
Simple Clauses - Predication	Relativizer is a verbal affix		no info
Simple Clauses - Predication	Morphological relativizer is homophonous with nominalizer	The same morpheme marks a relative clause and is a nominalizer on verbs (and/or other word classes)	no info
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Pronominal subjects: pronouns in subject position	Pronominal subjects are free pronouns that occur in the same position as full NP subjects	yes		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b.
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Pronominal subjects: prefixes on verb	Pronominal subjects are marked as verbal prefixes (free pronouns may be another option)	no		Levinson 1974:9
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Pronominal subjects: suffixes on verb	Pronominal subjects are marked as verbal suffixes (free pronouns may be another option)	yes		Levinson 1974:9
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Pronominal subjects: clitics on variable host	Pronominal subjects are clitics that can attach to verbs, nominal constituents, etc.	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b.
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Pronominal subjects: pronouns in non-subject position	Pronominal subjects are free pronouns but do not normally occur in the position expected for full NP subjects	no		Levinson 1974, 1976, 1976b.
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Person marking on intransitive verbs	Intransitive verbs take person-marking clitics/affixes	yes		Levinson 1978:11-23
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Person marking (of agents) on transitive verbs	Transitive verbs take subject (A) markers	yes		Levinson 1978:11-23
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Person-marking (of objects) on transitive verbs	Transitive verbs take object (P) markers	no	except for the situation in which first person acts upon second person in which a single verbal suffix /-iki/ marks both subject and object	Levinson 1978:13
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	3rd person zero in verbal person marking: subjects	3rd person subjects are not overtly marked within the verbal person-marking system	yes		Levinson 1974:9
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	3rd person zero in verbal person marking: objects	3rd person objects are not overtly marked within the verbal person-marking system	no	Objects are not coreferenced on the verb	Levinson 1974:9
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Number can be marked separately from person on the verb	Verbal person marking exists, but number is (or can) be marked separately	yes	There are two plural markers on the verb: /-tʃi/ for first and second person and /-kuna/ for third person	Levinson 1974:27
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Possessive affixes/clitics on nouns are same as verbal person markers	Where nouns take possessive affixes, these are the same as the person-marking affixes	no info
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking	Gender distinguished in verbal person markers	For any person, verbal person markers exhibit different forms depending on the gender (masc/fem, animate/inanimate, etc.) of the referent	no
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice	Ditransitive constructions: indirect object	In ditransitives (e.g. 'John gives a book to Bill'), the theme (book) is treated in the same way as are objects of transitives, while the recipient/beneficiary (Bill) is treated differently	no		Levinson 1974:16
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice	Ditransitive constructions: double object	In ditransitives (e.g. 'John gives Bill a book'), both the theme (book) and the recipient/beneficiary (Bill) is treated in the same way as are objects of transitives	yes	Both direct and indirect object receive /-ta/ if they are specific.	Levinson 1974:16
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice	Ditransitive constructions: secondary object	In ditransitives, the recipient/beneficiary is treated in the same way as are objects of transitives, while the theme (book) is treated differently	no		Levinson 1974:16
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing	Reciprocal: dedicated morpheme	Verb becomes reciprocal through use of reciprocal morpheme associated with the verb (may be attached to the verb root). This morpheme is only used to mean reciprocal.	yes	The same suffix is also used to mark reflexives	Levinson 1987:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing	Reflexive: dedicated morpheme	Verb becomes reflexive through use of reflexive morpheme associated with the verb (may be attached to the verb root). This morpheme is used only to mean reflexive.	yes		Levinson 1987:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing	Reciprocal/reflexive: same morpheme	Verb becomes reciprocal or reflexive through use of a morpheme that means either reciprocal or reflexive which attaches to the root of the verb	yes		Levinson 1987:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing	Passive	Passive voice usually involves a change to the verb, while the object of the active voice verb is promoted to subject in the passive voice, and the former subject is deleted/demoted	no info
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing	Antipassive	Like passive, but deletes or demotes the object of a transitive verb; usually found in ergative languages	no info
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing	Other intransitivizing morphology	There is/are some other mechanism(s) for reducing valency	no info
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Applicative: benefactive	Applicative adds a beneficiary/maleficiary object argument to the verb	yes		Levinson 1978:22
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Applicative: other	Applicative adds some other object argument to the verb	no info
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Causative: prefix	Causative is morphological and is attached before the root of the verb	no		Levinson 1978:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Causative: suffix	Causative is morphological and is attached after the root of the verb	yes		Levinson 1978:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Causative marked by circumfix, stem change, or tone	Morphological causative other than simple prefix/suffix	no		Levinson 1978:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Causative: serial verb or analytical construction	Causative construction that involves periphrasis or serialization	no		Levinson 1978:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Causative: dedicated 'make do by proxy'	Indicates that the causer does not directly cause the action of the verb to be realized, but does so by inducing someone else to carry out the action, e.g. 'John had the house painted.'	no info	more likely not	Levinson 1978:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Causative: dedicated sociative	Indicates that causer participates in event	no info		Levinson 1978:12
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing	Other transitivizing morphology (adds valence)	There is/are some other mechanism(s) for increasing valency	no		Levinson 1978:11-23
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense	Dedicated past marker(s)	Past tense is regularly morphologically marked on the verb or elsewhere	yes		Levinson 1978:14-5
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense	Multiple past tenses, distinguishing distance from time of reference	e.g. distant vs. recent past	no info
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense	Multiple future tenses, distinguishing distance from time of reference	e.g. imminent vs. distant future	yes	/-/ mark inmediate future but this verbal suffix is optional	Levinson 1978:14-5, Levinson 1974:67
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense	Dedicated future or non-past marker(s)		yes		Levinson 1978:14-5, Levinson 1974:48
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense	Tense-aspect affixes: prefix		no		Levinson 1978:14-5, Levinson 1974:48
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense	Tense-aspect affixes: suffix		yes		Levinson 1978:14-5, Levinson 1974:48
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense	Tense-aspect affixes: tone or ablaut		no		Levinson 1978:14-5, Levinson 1974:48
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense	Tense-aspect suppletion		no		Levinson 1978:14-5, Levinson 1974:48
Verbal Categories - Directionals	Directional elements affixed to the verb	There are grammaticalized elements indicating movement away, toward, there and back, etc.	yes		Levinson 1978:22
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Grammaticalized visual	Indicates information has been witnessed visually - indicate only if an overt marker	yes		Levinson 1978:25
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Grammaticalized nonvisual	Indicates information has been sensed firsthand but not visually (usually heard; also smelled, tasted, felt)	no		Levinson 1978:25
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Grammaticalized inferential	Indicates information has not been experienced firsthand, but inferred from some kind of evidence - indicate only if an overt marker.	yes		Levinson 1978:25
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Grammaticalized reportive	Indicates speaker is not responsible for veracity of statement, merely reporting; 'allegedly'	yes		Levinson 1978:25
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Grammaticalized quotative	Indicate presence of adjacent representation of repeated discourse	no		Levinson 1978:11-25
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Other evidential	Any other evidential values not represented above	yes	This clitic expresses doubt for facts for which there is not tangible evidence	Levinson 1976b:49
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Evidentiality: verb affix or clitic		yes		Levinson 1978:25
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Evidentiality: part of tense system	Includes portmanteau morphs	no		Levinson 1978:25
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Evidentiality: separate particle		yes	The evidentiality clitics tend to appear on vebrs but they can also attach to a preverbal constituent	Levinson 1978:25
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality	Evidentiality: modal morpheme		no		Levinson 1978:25
Verbal Categories - Mood	Dedicated imperative morpheme or verb form	There is a special morpheme (or morphemes, or a bare verb root where inflection is normally expected) used to signal imperative (command) mood	yes		Levinson 1987:20
Verbal Categories - Mood	Polite imperative morpheme	There is a distinct morpheme for polite imperative constructions (specify if it has other functions in the language)	no		Levinson 1978:11-23
Verbal Categories - Mood	Difference between negation in imperative (prohibitive) and declarative clauses	There are different strategies for marking negation in imperative and declarative clauses	yes	/ama/ is the negative for imperatives	Levinson 1978:30
Verbal Categories - Mood	Dedicated hortative morpheme or verb form (1pl or 3rd person imperative)	as opposed to imperative; the person in control of desired state of affairs is not the addressee; ex: 'Let's sing' / 'Let him sing'	yes		Levinson 1978:21
Verbal Categories - Mood	Situational possibility: affix on verb	Inflectional marking of capacity to do something	yes		Levinson 1976b:56
Verbal Categories - Mood	Situational possibility: verbal construction		no		Levinson 1976b:56
Verbal Categories - Mood	Situational possibility: other marking		no		Levinson 1976b:56
Verbal Categories - Mood	Epistemic possibility: affix on verb	Modal expressing hypothesis	no info
Verbal Categories - Mood	Epistemic possibility: verbal construction		no info
Verbal Categories - Mood	Epistemic possibility: other marking		no info
Verbal Categories - Mood	Marking of expected/unexpected action or result	There is inflectional marking of expected/unexpected	no info
Verbal Categories - Mood	Verbal frustrative	Modal expressing frustration ("in vain")	no info
Verbal Categories - Mood	Verbal habitual	Modal expressing habituality	no	The non-future time is used which is formed by just adding subject cross-reference markers on the verb	Levinson 1974:16
Verbal Categories - Mood	Apprehensive construction	There is a single morpheme or verb form to mean '(be careful lest) X happens'	no		Levinson 1978:11-23
Verbal Categories - Mood	Reality status marking on verbs	There are dedicated morpheme(s) for realis/irrealis 'actualized/unactualized events'	no		Levinson 1978:11-23
Verbal Categories - Mood	Affect markers (positive/negative)	Note whether these inflectional markers are positive or negative	yes	The diminutive suffix borrowed form Spanish /-ito, -ita/ are used as affective markers as well as diminutive	Levinson 1976b:65
Verbal Categories - Other	Social interaction markers	Note the type of interaction	no info
Verbal Categories - Verbal number	Verbal number suppletion		no		Levinson 1978:11-23
Word Order	No fixed basic constituent order		no		Levinson 1978:24-5
Word Order	VS in intransitive clauses	Verb precedes subject	no		Levinson 1978:24-5
Word Order	VS in transitive clauses		no		Levinson 1978:25
Word Order	VO in transitive clauses	Verb precedes object	no		Levinson 1978:25
Word Order	OS in transitive clauses	Object precedes subject	no		Levinson 1978:25
Word Order	Preposition-Noun		no		Parks 1990:76
Word Order	Noun-Postposition or case suffix		no		Parks 1990:76
Word Order	Gen-Noun	Possessive phrase composed of a free possessor and its possessum has possessor first (e.g. John's book)	yes		ILV 1976:35-6
Word Order	Noun-Gen	Possessive phrase composed of a free possessor and its possessum has possessum first (e.g. 'book of John')	no		Levinson 1974:19
Word Order	Adj-Noun	Adjective precedes the noun	yes		Levinson 1978:23
Word Order	Noun-Adj	Adjective follows the noun	no		Levinson 1974:19
Word Order	Dem-Noun		yes		Levinson 1974:19
Word Order	Noun-Dem		no		Levinson 1974:19
Word Order	Num-Noun		yes	Based on the other instances of dependet-head found in the NP.	Levinson 1978:23, Levinson 1974:19
Word Order	Noun-Num		no		Levinson 1978:23, Levinson 1974:19
Word Order	Noun-Rel	Relative clause follows noun that it modifies	no info
Word Order	Rel-Noun	Relative clause precedes noun that it modifies	no info
Word Order	Re<Noun>l (internally headed relative)	e.g. 'the dog cat chased-NMZR got away' ('the cat that the dog chased got away')	no info
Word Order	Relative clause is correlative or adjoined	e.g. 'what is running, the dog chased that cat'	no info
Word Order	Question word is clause initial	'what', 'who', etc. come first in interrogative clause	yes		Levinson 1972:260-1

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