- Hixkaryana language
language
name=Hixkaryána
states=Brazil
region=UpperNhamundá River , Amazonas
speakers=500–600
familycolor=American
fam1=Carib
fam2=Southern
fam3=Southern Guiana
iso2=sai|iso3=hixHixkaryana is one of the
Carib languages , spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá river, a tributary of theAmazon River inBrazil . It is one of a few known natural languages that normally useObject Verb Subject word order, and may have been the first such language to be described (by linguistDesmond C. Derbyshire ).Phonology
Hixkaryana has the following consonant
phoneme s:Indirect objects, however, follow the subject:
Moreover, word order in nonfinite embedded clauses is SOV. [http://www.ling.umd.edu/~soltan/LING419B/Handouts/handout3.pdf] . Like most other languages with objects preceding the verb, it is
postposition al.External links
* [http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/carib/americas/hix/view?searchterm=Hix Hixkaryana Linguistic Overview]
* [http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~ehume/metathesis/Hixkaryana.html Metathesis in Hixkaryana]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hix Ethnologue report on Hixkaryana]References
*cite book | author=Aikhenvald, A. & Dixon, R. (Eds.) | title=The Amazonian Languages | location=Oxford | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1999 | id=ISBN 0-521-57021-2
*cite book | author=Derbyshire, D. | title=Hixkaryana | location=Amsterdam | publisher=North-Holland Publishing | year=1979 | id=ISBN
*cite book | author=Derbyshire, D. | title=Hixkaryana and Linguistic Typology | location=Dallas, TX | publisher=Summer Institute of Linguistics | year=1985 | id=ISBN 0-88312-082-8
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