Mosetén-Chimané
Mosetén-Chimané is a language isolate spoken in Bolivia, by about 5,316 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Chimané (Tsimaneʼ) and Mosetén are dialects of a South American language isolate. Mosetén is further divided into Mosetén of Santa Ana and Mosetén of Covendo. Chimane is a language of the western Bolivian lowlands spoken by the Tsimane peoples along the Beni River and the region around San Borja in the Department of Beni (Bolivia). Sakel (2004) classifies them as two languages for a number of reasons, yet some of the variants of the language are mutually intelligible and they reportedly have no trouble communicating and were evidently a single language separated recently through cultural contact (Campbell 2000).
From Wikipedia · Mosetén–Chimane language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Written down
Räj mun'tyi' naeja’ vaj cäts vajo'meja'dye, tupuj dyi'jyeja junchuc ra' chijoj coja' jemoñe' jäm jitica'cui tsun judyeya' yoctyi'tum in.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Mosetén-Chimané
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | phen | |
| person | mintyi7* | |
| name | ti7* | |
| eye | Chaen* | |
| ear | reh* | |
| nose | haeih* | |
| tongue | nem* | |
| hand | in* | |
| blood | ChaeS* | |
| water | öjñï' | |
| fire | chih* | |
| sun | cin* | |
| stone | miy* | |
| mountain | daerae7* | |
| tree | daerae7* | |
| night | yomo* | |
| dog | aCae* | |
| fish | tyab* | |
| louse | roro* | |
| one | hiris* | |
| two | paerae7* | |
| I | yae* | |
| you | mi* | |
| we | cin* | |
| drink | tye* | |
| see | kare* | |
| hear | se7re* | |
| die | sae5i* | |
| come | renChi* | |
| path | mahmi* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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