Ciguayo language
| Ciguayo | |
|---|---|
| Siwayo | |
| Native to | Tolan ? (one of the pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
0yv | |
| Glottolog | None |
 Precolombian languages of the Antilles.
Ciguayo
Yao were Cariban. Guanahatabey, Macorix , and Ciguayo are unclassified. | |
Ciguayo (Siwayo) was the language of the
Taino who inhabited much of the island. The language appears to have been moribund at the time of Spanish contact, and within a century it was extinct.[1][2]
Ciguayo was spoken on the northeastern coast of the
Samana Peninsula.[3]
Lexicon
Little is known of Ciguayo apart from it being a distinct language from Taino and neighboring
Tolan languages of Honduras.[3]
Granberry & Vescelius (2004) analyze the morphemes of tuob 'gold' and Quizquella 'very mountainous' as:
- to-w-b(e) 'gold'
- to- (cf. Eastern Tol t 'heavy(ness)')
- -w- (cf. Eastern Tol -w- 'its')
- -b(e) (cf. Eastern Tol -pe 'stone')
- kʰis-kʰe-ya 'very mountainous'
- kʰis- (cf. Eastern Tol kʰis 'hard rock')
- -kʰe- (cf. reduplication in Eastern Tol)
- -ya (cf. Eastern Tol yo 'tree')
See also
References
- ^ Granberry, Julian (2012). "Lenguas indígenas del caribe" (PDF). Cuba Arqueológica. 5 (1): 5–11.
- ^ Guitar, Lynne (2005). "Following Linguistic Trails across Half a Millennium Provides New Answers to Old Questions". H-LatAm (H-Net).
- ^ ISBN 0-8173-5123-X.)
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