UGS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bora People, Amazonian Languages, Glottalization
6 Feb 2017
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Lots of tone and sounds that are unfamiliar to european language speakers i. e. meaning of word changes based on pitch. Morphology lots of verbs/pieces of the sentences are strung together in english, we would translate it to be an entire sentence with lots of details for them, it is equivalent to a word. Object before subject in basic (default) word order: thought to be impossible, occurs in several amazonian languages. Mimic tones and rhythms of spoken language. They would then pass it on to their neighbors. Can go to the site: hup is spoken in the upper rio negro region, surrounded by many language families. In some cases, translators help: most of the time, people are competent in all the languages they need. Can be a strong non-verbal language: everyone can understand even if they cannot speak. Vaupes multilingualism: eastern tukanoan and arawak peoples: It is required: extreme in the sense that it is a rule that cannot be broken.
