Yao language (Trinidad)
| Yao | |
|---|---|
| Jaoi | |
| Yebarana | |
| Native to | Trinidad, French Guiana |
| Era | 17th century |
|
Cariban
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
yaoa1239[1] |
Yao (Jaoi, Yaoi, Yaio, Anacaioury) is an extinct Cariban language of Trinidad and French Guiana, attested in a single 1640 word list recorded by Joannes de Laet. It is thought that the Yao people migrated from the Orinoco to the islands perhaps a century earlier, after the Kaliña.[2] The name 'Anacaioury' is that of a number of chiefs encountered over a century or so.
Yao is too poorly attested to classify within Cariban with any confidence, though Terrence Kaufman links it to the extinct Tiverikoto.[3] A few of the attested words are:
nonna or noene 'moon', weyo 'sun', capou 'céu', chirika 'star', pepeïte 'wind', kenape 'rain', soye 'earth', parona 'sea', ouapoto 'fire', aroua 'jaguar', pero 'dog' (from Spanish)
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yebarana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Tassinari (2003) No Bom da Festa, p 122–125
- ↑ Kaufman, Terrence (1994). Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R.E., eds. Atlas of the World's Languages. New York: Routledge. pp. 73–74. ISBN 0-415-01925-7.
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