Urarina
Urarina is a language isolate spoken in Peru. Glottolog rates it shifting.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Urarina is a language isolate spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are around 3,000 speakers in Urarinas District (along the Chambira River). It uses the Latin script. It is also known as Itucali, Simacu or Shimacu.
It has the rare canonical word order of object–verb–subject.
From Wikipedia · Urarina language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Written down
Ita rijiicha itolere cacha. Aihana jaun, ita belaain, naojoain neuruhine laurilaurichuru nenacaauru aina itolere cachaauru.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Urarina
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | eene | |
| eye | nuxta* | |
| ear | idiCu* | |
| nose | asi* | |
| tooth | kaxto* | |
| tongue | lexle* | |
| hand | bixi* | |
| blood | ixCuicana* | |
| bone | buixke* | |
| skin | Cuixkadi* | |
| knee | daduwe* | |
| breast | axladihi* | |
| water | akaʉ | |
| fire | oxsi* | |
| sun | enotu* | |
| star | adaCe* | |
| stone | axeri* | |
| tree | eneXa* | |
| leaf | aralana* | |
| night | una* | |
| dog | oema* | |
| fish | ate* | |
| one | leinji̡į | |
| two | kurava* | |
| I | kanE* | |
| you | i* | |
| we | kanakanE* | |
| path | bedu* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Grammar
- SisiqaAustronesian83% alike
- Suruí Do ParáTupian82% alike
- Northern BaiSino-Tibetan81% alike
- BorucaChibchan80% alike
- MillcayacHuarpean79% alike
- Peripheral MongolianMongolic-Khitan79% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · urar1246 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · ura