Piapoco

E692867

Piapoco is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Piapoco people primarily in eastern Colombia and neighboring regions of Venezuela.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Piapoco canonical 9

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea Amazonian ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Colombia ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ
ethnicGroup Piapoco ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Piapoco Arawak ⓘ
Piapoko ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder SOV ⓘ
hasCommunityEfforts language maintenance ⓘ
hasConsonantInventory moderate-sized consonant inventory typical of Arawakan languages ⓘ
hasDomain home and community domains ⓘ
hasGrammaticalGender true ⓘ
hasLanguageContactWith Spanish ⓘ
other Orinoco basin indigenous languages ⓘ
hasLanguageDocumentation dictionaries ⓘ
grammatical descriptions ⓘ
text collections ⓘ
hasLexicalSimilarityWith other Northern Arawakan languages ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology SOV-dominant word order ⓘ
hasMorphologyType agglutinative ⓘ
hasNumberDistinction singular and plural ⓘ
hasOralLiterature true ⓘ
hasPersonMarking on verbs ⓘ
hasPhylum Arawakan ⓘ
linked to: Arawakan languages
hasPossessionMarking on nouns ⓘ
hasPronominalSystem bound person markers ⓘ
hasStressPattern predictable stress system ⓘ
hasVowelInventory five-vowel system ⓘ
hasWordOrderFlexibility true ⓘ
hasYoungerSpeakerDecline true ⓘ
isEndangered true ⓘ
ISO639-3Code pio ⓘ
isSubjectToLanguageShiftTowards Spanish ⓘ
languageFamily Arawakan ⓘ
linked to: Arawakan languages
languageFamilyBranch Maipurean ⓘ
region Orinoco River basin ⓘ
linked to: Orinoco Basin

eastern Colombia ⓘ
spokenBy Piapoco people ⓘ
spokenIn Colombia ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ
subfamily Northern Arawakan ⓘ
usedFor daily communication within Piapoco communities ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

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