Enawene Nawe language should not be confused with Salumá language.
| Enawene Nawe | |
| Nativename: | Salumã |
| Region: | Mato Grosso, Brazil |
| Ethnicity: | Enawene Nawe people |
| Speakers: | 570 |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Arawakan |
| Fam2: | Southern |
| Fam3: | Paresi–Xingu ? |
| Fam4: | Paresi–Enawene Nawe ? |
| Iso3: | unk |
| Glotto: | enaw1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Enawené-Nawé |
Enawene Nawe (Enawené-Nawé, Enawenê-Nawê, Eneuene-Mare), also known as Salumã, is an Arawakan language of Brazil spoken by about 570 people living in the Juruena River basin area, and more specifically along the Iquê river in the state of Mato Grosso.
Aikhenvald (1999) classifies Enawene Nawe as a South Arawak language together with Terena, Lapachu and Moxo.[1] However, more recent works by both Fabre (2005) and Brandão & Facundes (2007) consider the language to form a subgroup with Paresi in the Paresi–Xingu branch of Arawakan languages.
| Person | Paresi | Enawene Nawe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| natyo | nato | ||
| hitso | hixo | ||
| eze | ere | ||
| witso | wixo | ||
| xitso | dexo | ||
| ezenae | erenaha |
| Number | Paresi | Enawene Nawe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| one | hatita | xoxola | |
| two | hinama | initini | |
| three | hanama | koytala | |
| four | zalakakoa | noxi |
| Word | Paresi | Enawene Nawe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| to fall | ezoa | edoa | |
| itch | mare, mali | wera | |
| drink | era, tera | wesera | |
| corn | kozeto | korito | |
| eye | zotse | edose | |
| house | hati, hana | hakolo | |
| vulture | oloho | olohõ | |
| night | maka | mikya | |
| stone | tsehali | sairi | |
| uncle | koko | kokore | |
| sour | katyala | katala | |
| basket | koho | tohe | |
| bathe | koaha | nakohã | |
| arrive | kaoka | takwa |
Enawene Nawe is described by Zorthêa (2006) as having 15 contrastive consonants.[3]
| Plosive | pronounced as /ink/ (kw) | pronounced as /ink/ (t) | pronounced as /ink/ (ky) | pronounced as /ink/ (k) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pronounced as /ink/ (d) | |||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ (m) | pronounced as /ink/ (n) | pronounced as /ink/ (ñ) | ||||
| Flap | pronounced as /ink/ (r) | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ (s) | pronounced as /ink/ (x) | pronounced as /ink/ (h) | ||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ (w) | pronounced as /ink/ (l) | pronounced as /ink/ (y) | ||||
Among these, the following allophonic variations are reported:[4]
| (w) | varies between pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ in word-initial position before the front vowels pronounced as //e// and pronounced as //i// |
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| (m) | varies between pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ |
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| (d) | varies between pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ |
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| (r) | varies between pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ |
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| (k) | varies between pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ between vowels | (nawenekota) "I think": pronounced as /[nawenekota~nawenegota]/ | |
| (ky) | varies between pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ between vowels | ||
| (t) | varies between pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ between vowels |
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Enawene Nawe is described by Zorthêa (2006) as having 4 oral vowels and 4 nasal vowels.
| Near-Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/~pronounced as /ink/ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/~pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Near-Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/~pronounced as /ink/ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/~pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Person | Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | nato | wixo | |
| 2nd | hixo | dexo | |
| 3rd | ere | erenaha |
The first eleven numbers in Enawene Nawe are as follows:
| Number | Enawene Nawe | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | xoxola | |
| 2 | initini | |
| 3 | koytala | |
| 4 | noxi | |
| 5 | monarese,eswe | |
| 6 | lolokwate | |
| 7 | lolate | |
| 8 | hoxiro | |
| 9 | mamalakari | |
| 10 | ketera | |
| 11 | darayti |
Zorthêa (2006) notes that all numbers except initini (2) and monarese (5) can be preceded and followed by affixes.
Enawene Nawe makes use of a variety of suffixes and prefixes to derive different meanings from root words.
Zorthêa (2006) describes Enawene Nawe as having two suffixes to explicitly mark gender: -lo for the feminine gender and -re for the masculine. De Almeida (2015), however, notes four suffixes: -nero and -lo mark the feminine gender, while -nere and -li mark the masculine.
Examples from de Almeida (2015):
The suffix -kwa is used to mark places and is commonly found in village names. For example, the name of the Enawene Nawe village Matokodakwa is ultimately derived from matokoda, meaning "container for transporting liquids", and -kwa "place".