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Arutani is one of the most poorly attested extant languages in South America, and may be a language isolate. [4] [5]Existing data is limited to a 1911 word list by Koch-Grünberg (1928: 308-313), [6] a 1940 word list by Armellada & Matallana (1942: 101-110), [7] and a 100-item Swadesh list by Migliazza (1978). [8]
In Ake he has produced an account of his childhood as a Yoruba in western Nigeria that is destined to become a classic of African autobiography, indeed a classic of childhood memoirs wherever and whenever produced....Through recollection, restoration and re-creation, he conveys a personal vision that was formed by the childhood world that he ...
A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made with suffixes and prefixes [1] plus its cognates, i.e. all words that have a common etymological origin, some of which even native speakers don't recognize as being related (e.g. "wrought (iron)" and "work(ed)"). [2]
The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.
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From allpaca, the Aymara name for the animal, related to Quechua p'ake ("yellowish-red"). [13] Alnashetri † alvarezsaurid: Tehuelche (Günün‑a‑kunna dialect) The genus name means "slender thighs" because of its long and slender hind limbs [14] Ananas comosus : bromeliad: Tupi: The generic name derives from nanas, the Tupi name of the ...
The forty or so Plateau languages are a tentative group of Benue–Congo languages spoken by 15 million people on the Jos Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa State and in adjacent areas in central Nigeria.