Pisamira language

{{Infobox language

| name = Pisamira

| states = Colombia

| region = Vaupés Department

| ethnicity = Pisamira

| speakers = ?

| familycolor = American

| fam1 = Tucanoan

| fam2 = Eastern

| fam3 = Central

| fam4 = Tatuyo–Carapano

| iso3 = none

| glotto = pisa1245

| glottorefname = Pisamira

| map = Pisamira.png

}}

Pisamira is a Tucanoan language. Ethnologue misidentifies it as a dialect of Tucano.{{Cite journal |last=Hammarström |first=Harald |date=September 2015 |title=Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: A comprehensive review: Online appendices |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/593411 |journal=Language |language=en |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=s1–s188 |doi=10.1353/lan.2015.0049 |issn=1535-0665}}

Phonology

Pisamira features six vowels /a e i ɨ o u/ which can be either oral or nasal, and eleven consonant phonemes.{{Cite book |last=González de Pérez |first=María Stella |url=https://lenguasyliteraturasnativas.caroycuervo.gov.co/publicaciones/2023/11/pisamira.pdf |title=Bases para el estudio de la lengua pisamira |publisher=Instituto Caro y Cuervo |year=2000}} A few of these consonants /g, t͡ʃ, r/ have a restricted distribution and rarely or never appear at the beginnings of roots.{{Cite journal|last=Preciado|first=Rodríguez|last2=Patricia|first2=Iveth|date=2018-02-28|title=Aspectos de la morfología nominal y verbal de la lengua pisamira : una lengua de la familia tucano oriental del noroeste amazónico|url=https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/32532|language=es}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" \|+Pisamira Consonant Phonemes ! colspan="2" \| !Labial !Apical !Palatal !Velar !Glottal
rowspan="2" \| Stops !{{small\|voiceless}} \|{{IPA link\|p}} \|{{IPA link\|t}} \| \|{{IPA link\|k}} \|
{{small\|voiced}} \|{{IPA link\|b}} \|{{IPA link\|d}} \| \|{{IPA link\|g}} \|
colspan="2" \| Continuants \|{{IPA link\|ʋ}} \| \|{{IPA link\|ʝ}} \| \|{{IPA link\|h}}
colspan="2" \| Affricates \| \| \|{{IPA link\|t͡ʃ}} \| \|
colspan="2" \| Trills \| \|{{IPA link\|r}} \| \| \|

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

|+Pisamira Consonant Phonemes

! colspan="2" |

!Labial

!Apical

!Palatal

!Velar

!Glottal

rowspan="2" | Stops

!{{small|voiceless}}

|{{IPA link|p}}

|{{IPA link|t}}

|{{IPA link|k}}

|{{IPA link|b}}

|{{IPA link|d}}

|{{IPA link|g}}

colspan="2" | Continuants

|{{IPA link|ʋ}}

|{{IPA link|ʝ}}

|{{IPA link|h}}

colspan="2" | Affricates

|{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}

colspan="2" | Trills

|{{IPA link|r}}

References

Category:Languages of Colombia

Category:Tucanoan languages