Hoti
Hoti is a language isolate spoken in Venezuela, by about 900 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
The Hodï (Jodï, Jotí, Hoti) language, also known as Yuwana (Yoana), Waruwaru (Waruwadu), or Chikano (Chicano), is a small unclassified language spoken by the Hodï people of Venezuela. Very little is known of it; its several hundred speakers are monolingual hunter-gatherers. The people call themselves Jojodö ('the people') or Wįlǫ̈, and their language Jojodö tjįwęnę. The two communities with the most speakers are San José de Kayamá and Caño Iguana, with several hundred speakers total.
Sources are inconsistent with nasals, varying between e.g. nV and lṼ.
From Wikipedia · Hodï language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Hoti
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | hwod3* | |
| name | k3hawa* | |
| eye | muahtu* | |
| ear | olyeka* | |
| nose | 5io* | |
| tooth | uhku* | |
| tongue | alyelye* | |
| hand | m3wahwa* | |
| blood | kw3* | |
| bone | wawa* | |
| skin | hetoto* | |
| knee | meko* | |
| breast | mewa* | |
| liver | otete* | |
| water | au* | |
| fire | kulya* | |
| sun | ti5ewa* | |
| star | ated3* | |
| stone | iht3* | |
| mountain | inawa* | |
| tree | taw* | |
| leaf | hya* | |
| night | tikw3to* | |
| dog | yewi* | |
| fish | mohto* | |
| louse | tukwai* | |
| one | yatoa* | |
| two | hwekyat3* | |
| I | ya* | |
| you | ka* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · yuwa1244 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · yau