Nomatsiguenga language

Nomatsiguenga
Nomatsiguenga
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Native to	Perú
Ethnicity	Machiguenga
Native speakers	6,500 (2003)
Language family	Arawakan Southern Campa Matsigenka Nomatsiguenga; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	not
Glottolog	noma1263
ELP	Nomatsiguenga

Nomatsiguenga (Matsigenka) is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is close enough to Machiguenga to sometimes be considered dialects of a single language, especially given that both are spoken by the Machiguenga people. Most speakers are monolingual.

Phonology

According to Lawrence, Nomatsiguenga has the following consonant and vowel phonemes.^[2]

Nomatsiguenga consonants
	Bilabial	Dental	Alveopalatal	Velar	Glottal	Unspecified
Nasal	m	n		ŋ (ng, n)		N (n, m)
Stop	p b	t		k g
Fricative		s	ʃ (sh)		h
Affricate		ts	tʃ (ch)
Liquid			ɾ (r)
Semivowel			j (y)

Nomatsiguenga vowels
	Front	Central	Back
High	i, iː (ii)	ɨi (ë)
Mid	e, eː (ee)		o, oː (oo)
Low		a, aː (aa)

Grammar

Nomatsiguenga is one of the few languages in the world that has two different causative mechanisms to denote whether the causer was involved in the activity with the causee or not. The prefix ogi- is used to express the idea that the causer was not involved in the activity, while the suffix -hag is used when the causer is involved.^[3]

y-ogi-monti-ë-ri

3SG+M-CAUS₁-cross.river-NFUT-3SG+M

i-tomi

3SG+M-son

"He made his son cross the river (he told him to)."

y-monti-a-hag-ë-ri

3SG+M-cross.river-E-CAUS₂-NFUT-3SG+M

i-tomi

3SG+M-son

"He made his son cross the river (he helped him across)."

References

^ Nomatsiguenga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Lawrence, Aimee L. (2013). Inflectional Verbal Morphology in Nomatsigenga (Thesis). University of Texas at Austin.
^ Wise, M.R. (1986). "Grammatical characteristics of PreAndine Arawaken languages of Peru." pg. 567–642. In Derbyshire, D. C. & Pullum, G. K., eds. (1986). Handbook of Amazonian languages, Vol. 1'. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Cited in Dixon, R.M.W. (2000). "A Typology of Causatives: Form, Syntax, and Meaning". In Dixon, R.M.W. & Aikhenvald, Alexendra Y. Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University Press.

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[e18-1] Nomatsiguenga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Lawrence, Aimee L. (2013). Inflectional Verbal Morphology in Nomatsigenga (Thesis). University of Texas at Austin.

[3] Wise, M.R. (1986). "Grammatical characteristics of PreAndine Arawaken languages of Peru." pg. 567–642. In Derbyshire, D. C. & Pullum, G. K., eds. (1986). Handbook of Amazonian languages, Vol. 1'. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Cited in Dixon, R.M.W. (2000). "A Typology of Causatives: Form, Syntax, and Meaning". In Dixon, R.M.W. & Aikhenvald, Alexendra Y. Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University Press.