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TABLE 1
VOWELS
i i u e a o
[high] + + + - - -
[back] - + + - + +
[round] - - + - - +
TABLE 2
CONSONANTS
Coronal Coronal
Labial [+anterior] [-anterior] Dorsal Laryngeal
[-sonorant] [-voice] [-continuant] p t c k
[+continuant] [-voice] [+spread gl.] h
[-sonorant] [ +voice] [-continuant] b d j g
[+sonorant] [+voice][ +continuant] w r
Gomez-Imbert, Elsa, & Kenstowicz, Michael, ‘Barasana Tone and Accent,’ p.421
This is a formatting problem, to be dealt with later.
In Table 1 there are six vowels to be classified plus or minus according to high, back and round
In Table 2 Coronal is two words in a line above plus anterior and minus anterior.
In all
[-sonorant] [-voice] [-continuant]
[+continuant] [-voice] [+spread gl.]
[-sonorant] [ +voice] [-continuant]
[+sonorant] [+voice][ +continuant]
Must be placed in a side column, each followed by 5 boxes to insert the relevant data about the consonants (i.e. p/ t/c/k/)
Nishidani (
talk)
10:10, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Looking through the edit history, I think one user has a may have some WP:OWN issues. But hopefully we can get past that.
When I did some preliminary searching I noticed that several recent newspaper articles all used the same figure of 1890 speakers. [1] [2] [3] I guess they all got the figure directly from their subject, the World Oral Literature Project which Hugh-Jones was involved with. I don't know what the provenance of the figure is but it comes up in the encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. [4] I was warned against using .ca so I replaced it with .it. -- JGGardiner ( talk) 09:44, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
I do not understand what you mean by "dog leg edit".I was under the impression that I just corrected a spelling. -- Adi4094 ( talk) 09:13, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
In 2009 CBC radio's lectures ran a series called the Wayfinders, amazing stories of complex pre-colonial societies, an exploration by Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis.
I'm no expert, but you guys may find extra info in this radio show, just listening to streaming radio the amazing story of the Barasana. It's available on CBC's radio website: [5], third audio stream called Peoples of the Anaconda.
Enjoy :)