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RuoocPR ScRULLER
t,
in Tacana. These lndians pronounce it
Pari.
The Spanish palatal
ll,
in
cu–
Lhillo,
knife, becomes
r
in Tacan<\,
cutsiro.
The Maropa, however, accordiog
lo Heath, seem lo pronounce
w-tsillo.
The linguistic materials referred to in .the "Literature" bave beeo taken
as the basis of this study, which, indeed, does not pretend to embrace the whole
grammar of the Tacana dialects. Above al\, 1 thought it necessary lo extrae!
the most characteristic grammatical features, as the work on these idioms done
by others hitherto contains many errors regardiog the peculiarities of phone–
tics, personal and possessive pronouns, verbs, suffixes, particles, &c. Of course,
additional material should now be brought together so as to afford a general
survey of the'Tacana and its dialects 153.
To summarize: In the first place
J
.have shown that the Tacana, Cavineña,
Ara'on¡¡, Toromona, Maropa, Sapibocona and Ouariza are clósely related
dialects. And secondly, in spite of the relatively poor and in many respects
defective Jinguistic material, by careful inquiry and comparisol) of what was
accessible at the present time,
1
have obtained data which confirm relationship
between
t
h e T a e aria di a 1e e t s and the P an o Ji n g u i
~ ti
e f a mi 1y.
It
may be useful to point out once again the most noteworthy similarities.
English
T ~ca n a
Mo s eteno
S i pibo
ea-ma
ye
ea
thou
mia-¡a
mi154
mi, mia
he, bis
uxa,
A~
lwa
you
mi-cuana
mi-in
mi-bu
that one
tue-ta
uts
tua
The imperative in botb the Tacana and Sipibo is formed by suffixing
-que(-cue)
and
-hue
to the infinitive and the verbal stem, respectively.
Taca n a
drink ye!
idi-que!
Sip i bo
love!
mi-lwe!
Also
-ma,
the suffix of the negative is identical 155.
Ca v ineña
buxe,
patch
buxe-rna,
cleanliness, to clean
Sipibo
hisi,
to
be
painful
hisi-ma,
to be not painful.
Moreover, the causative is formed by the same particle.
Tac a n a
dta,
to give
dia-me,
tn fause to
be
given
Sipibo
piqui,
to eat
pi-ma-qui,
to cause another to eat
buqui,
to carry
bu-ma-qui,
to cause to
be
carried
Here we have syntactical fun ctions, which agree in their essential nature.
Such facts cannot very easily be explained away. further studies will, indeed,
throw more light on this problem.
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There
~re
many instances which lead to the beliel that the Tacana, Maropa,
Araona, Sapibocona, &c., are dialects o! the Cavineña.
lM
See Carib-Aruác languages.
1
••
See Maya-KitSé dialects.