Omagua

E596798

Omagua is an indigenous language of the Amazon Basin, historically spoken by the Omagua people along the upper Amazon River and belonging to the Tupi–Guaraní branch of the Tupian language family.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Omagua canonical 1
Omagua–Kambeba 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language ⓘ
alternativeName Cambeba ⓘ
Kambeba ⓘ
Omagua–Kambeba ⓘ
linked to: Omagua

Umaua ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea South American macro-area ⓘ
contactInfluence Nheengatu language ⓘ
Portuguese language ⓘ
Spanish language ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Brazil ⓘ
Peru ⓘ
documentationStatus poorly documented language ⓘ
endangermentCause language shift to Portuguese ⓘ
language shift to Spanish ⓘ
ethnicGroup Omagua people ⓘ
geneticClassification American indigenous language ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code omg ⓘ
historicalContact Jesuit missionaries in the Amazon Basin ⓘ
historicalRegion Solimões River region ⓘ
upper Amazon ⓘ
historicalStatus lingua franca of parts of the upper Amazon in the colonial period ⓘ
languageBranch Tupi–Guaraní branch ⓘ
linked to: Tupi–Guaraní
languageFamily Tupian ⓘ
languageSubfamily Tupi–Guaraní ⓘ
lexifierFor regional mixed varieties in the upper Amazon ⓘ
morphologicalFeature rich verbal morphology ⓘ
phonologicalFeature nasal harmony (typical of Tupi–Guaraní languages) ⓘ
region northeastern Peru ⓘ
western Brazilian Amazon ⓘ
relatedTo Cocama language ⓘ
Guaraní language ⓘ
linked to: Guaraní

Tupinambá language ⓘ
linked to: Tupi language
revitalizationEffort community-based language revitalization projects in Brazil ⓘ
spokenAlong upper Amazon River ⓘ
linked to: Amazon River
spokenInRegion Amazon Basin ⓘ
status moribund language ⓘ
severely endangered language ⓘ
syntacticFeature use of postpositions rather than prepositions ⓘ
typologicalFeature SOV word order (historically reconstructed) ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ
usedBy Omagua ethnic group ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Omagua → alternativeName → Omagua–Kambeba ⓘ
linked to: Omagua