Language of Moxos Province, Bolivia
Chiriba (Chiriva) is a poorly attested language of Moxos Province, Bolivia which may have belonged to the Panoan family. All that was recorded of it was a list of seven words; several of these resemble Panoan languages, especially Pakawara, and none resemble other language families. Unattested Chumana is reported to have been related.[1]
Vocabulary
Chíriva word list from the late 1790s published in Palau and Saiz (1989):[2]: 170
Spanish gloss |
English gloss |
Chíriva
|
bueno |
good |
sheoma
|
malo |
bad |
besoma
|
el padre |
father |
reomo
|
la madre |
mother |
yllquite
|
el hermano |
brother |
ycoyo
|
uno |
one |
tevisí
|
dos |
two |
jorová
|
See also
References
- ^ David Fleck, 2013, Panoan Languages and Linguistics, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99
- ^ Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz. 1989. Moxos: Descripciones exactas e historia fiel de los indios, animales y plantas de la provincia de Moxos en el virreinato del Perú por Lázaro de Ribera, 1786-1794. Madrid: El Viso.