Amondawa dialect
| Amondawa | |
|---|---|
| Amundava[1] | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Rondônia |
| Ethnicity | 130 Amondawa (2017)[2] |
Native speakers | 81 (2017)[2] 10 passive bilinguals (2017)[2] |
Tupian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | adw |
| Glottolog | amun1246 |
Amondawa is one of the 8 living varieties of the Kagwahiva language, a Tupi–Guarani language of the state of Rondônia in Brazil.[1] It is spoken by 81 of the Amondawa people, who numbered 130 in 2017. There are also 10 passive bilingual speakers who can only understand the language but not speak it. Amondawa children are no longer learning the language, resulting in its endangerment and possible future extinction.[2] Other sources report that Amondawa is being taught in schools in the region, however.[3] The Amondawa language lacks numerals above four and its speakers do not have an abstract sense of time,[4][5][6] leading to media outlets reporting the Amondawa as "the tribe without time".[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Glottolog 5.2 - Amundava". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ^ a b c d Nascimento dos Santos, Wesley (2024). Topics on the syntax of Kawahíva: A Tupí-Guaraní language from the Brazilian Amazon (Thesis). UC Berkeley.
- ^ Guo, Jiansheng; Lieven, Elena; Budwig, Nancy; Ervin-Tripp, Susan, eds. (2010-10-18), "Mixing and Mapping: Motion, Path, and Manner in Amondawa" (PDF), Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language (0 ed.), Psychology Press, pp. 447–460, doi:10.4324/9780203837887-47, ISBN 978-0-203-83788-7, retrieved 2025-09-12
- ^ "Telling Time in Amondawa - The Rosetta Project". rosettaproject.org. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ^ "Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says". BBC News. 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ^ Sinha, Chris; Sinha, Vera Da Silva; Zinken, Jörg; Sampaio, Wany (March 2011). "When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture". Language and Cognition. 3 (1): 137–169. doi:10.1515/langcog.2011.006. ISSN 1866-9808.
- ^ Sinha, Chris. "About time: The tribe without time". New Scientist. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
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