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Artículos • DELTA 39 (3) • 2023 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-460X202339352599   copy

New observations in Areal Typology about Indigenous Languages spoken in Colombian Amazonia

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Van Gijn et al. (2017)Van Gijn, R., Hammarström, H., Van de Kerke, S., Krasnoukhova, O., & Muysken, P. (2017). Linguistic Areas, Linguistic Convergence and River Systems in South America. In R. Hickey (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (pp. 964-996). Cambridge University Press. and Epps and Michael (2017)Epps, P., & Michael, L. (2017). The Areal Linguistics of Amazonia. In R. Hickey (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (pp. 934-963). Cambridge University Press expose the linguistic split of Colombian Amazonia between Vaupés and Western Zone. The present study reviews this information in Areal Typology on the strength of 21 linguistic systems that come from González de Pérez y Rodríguez de Montes (2000)González de Pérez, M. (2000). Bases para el estudio de la lengua pisamira. In M. González de Pérez & M. Rodríguez de Montes (Eds.), Lenguas indígenas de Colombia. Una visión descriptiva (pp. 373-394). Instituto Caro y Cuervo. , in combination with the phonological and grammatical criteria of Donegan and Stampe (2004Donegan, P., & Stampe, D. (2004). Rhythm and the synthetic drift of Munda. The Yearbook of South Asian languages and linguistics, 7, 3-36. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110179897.3
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110179897.3... ; 2009Donegan, P., & Stampe, D. (2009). Hypotheses of natural phonology. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 45(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10010-009-0002-x
https://doi.org/10.2478/v10010-009-0002-... ), an adapted territorial scale of Ruiz (2020)Ruiz, N. (2020). El español de Colombia. Nueva propuesta de división dialectal. Lenguaje, 48(2), 160-195. http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/lenguaje.v48i2.8719
http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/lenguaje.v48i... , and the georeferentiation and cartographic compilation methods of Nerbonne et al. (2018)Nerbonne, J., Wieling, M., Kleiweg, P., Leinonen, T., Çöltekin, Ç., Gooskens, C., & Colen, R. (2018). Gabmap - A Web Application for Dialectology. [Computer software]. University of Groningen https://gabmap.nl/
https://gabmap.nl/... . It is found that Vaupés preserves convergencies in phonology, but not respect to morphological and syntactic properties, where there is a contrast between North and South. The Western Zone includes not only Caquetá or Putumayo languages, but also some languages spoken in the Amazonas department. The Andoque case, that is related to Southern Vaupés in grammar, but Western Tukano (Caquetá-Putumayo) in phonology, sets up the necessity to postulate more than one proposal of territorial division.

Keywords:
languages spoken in Colombian Amazonia; Areal Typology; Phonological and Grammatical Properties

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