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The Language of the Tacana lndians (Bolivia).
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Taca na
Mar opa
Sapibocona
hand
eme
eme
eme
neck
etipi
etipi
etipi
foot
ecuatsi,
ecualri
evalri
ebbatsi
God
edutse
erutsi
man
dexa
frexa
reansi
(my) fat1ler
rema tata
qui-lata
tsect~a
(my) mother
quema.cuara
qui-cua
cua
woman
epuna
anu
anu.
grandmother
ane
fire
cuatí
cuati
cuali
lightning
tseru-tseru
xili-xi/i
i/apa
day
trine
trine
/sine
heaven
ebacua-patsa
embacua-patsa
evacuaepana
earth
melri, me¡i, eaun
metri,
mgua
melsi
water
ena
xuvi
euvi
Jake
bai
bai
tubi-bure
river
ena
enae
As lo !he borrowed words in the Tacana,
BRJNTOo
gives, among others,
the following forms:
bruada
metsi
etai
drexa
maita
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esi
emxai (etuxai)
cold
earth
house (Maropa)
man (Maropa)
morning
o
id
star
Yet none of these words is related either to the Kétsua or to the Aymará.
dr(-exa)
is evidently
the dental affricative
fr,
as,
for instance,
in
balri,
moon.
elai,
house, is one of the numerous forms in !he Tacana dialects which
points towards the Carib-Aruác linguistic family.
We find in
Guaná
Kuslenáu
Moxo
Araicú
Bakairí
Makusí
Paravilhana
Pano
p-eti
e
ti
p-eti
p-e(l}i
y-eli
eu-ele
ev-ode
baqueana nete
house
pudenda
house
house
my house
house
house
infans nidus habita–
tío matrix.
Nor can 1 see any relationship between
sixe, dixe, exique,
maize and
!he Kétsua word
lserlsi,
roasted maize.
Pano
sequi
maize
Culino
tSüqui
Piro
sinque
Atsíri
Sinque
Amuésa
sinque
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moylla
in Aymará may come from the Spanish mañana, though
maifa
is genuine
Tacana~
as well as
me/si, esi, e:wxai,
etc.