7 / 48
The Language o! the Tacana lndians (Bolivia).
101
Asto the Maropa dialect, my study is based upon BRlNTON and CARDús
19 .
f
ather CARDJS pubiished twenty words and twenty-eight sentences in the Cavi–
neña
20,
and nineteen words and twenty-eight sentences in the Maropa
dialect
21.
These glossaries have also been reprinted by LAFONE Queveoo
22 .
Tacana, Araona and Cavineña vocabularies ocwr in ARMENTIA's "Nave–
gación del Madre de Dios", Biblioteca Boliviana de Geografía e Historia,
1,
La Paz, 1887. Extracts from the Araona glossary we find in LAFONe
Queveoo's "Cavineña"
23.
One hundred eighty-three Tacana wot·ds, forty-four Araona and forty–
three Cavineña words (fiom ARMENTIA, 1887) were incorporated by BRINTON
in the "Tacana and Dialects-Vocabulary"
24.
References to the Tacana language we find also in BRINTON's "The
American Race". New York, 1891, pp. 298-300
(cf.
also the edit. of.l892).
The linguistic appendix c,ontains sixteen words, and the numerals 1-5 from
the Tacana, sixteen words and the numerals 1-5 from the Maropa, ami eleven
words and the numerals 1-3 from the Sapibocona dialect
2
5.
BRINTON's second contribution to the study of this linguistic branch
bea.rsthe following tille: "The Tacana Language and its dialects"
26 .
The compara–
tive vocabulary
al~o
contains twenty-three words of the Sapibocona from
HERVÁS
2 7 .
The Tacana pr<Jper words, about one hundred and twenty-two were
taken from ARMENTIA, 1887; and eight words from a closely related dialect
chosen from WeooEL's glossary. The numerals given by BRINTON are borrowed
words
2s.
Most valuable indications with respect to certain peculiar sounds in the
Tacana dialect are contained in father SANJ INE:s' "Manual en el idioma Ta–
cana, para el servicio de los Padres misioneros y aun para el de los patrones de ·
Barracas
29 ,
donde hay esparcidos algunos miles
30
de naturales Tacanas"
compuesto por el
R.
P.
f.
FERNANDO
DE
M. SANJINes. Small-8vo, printed in
1891
at
La Paz
31
The grammatical sketch, based chiefly on ARMENTIA, 1887, is followed by
1 9
11
Las .Misiones Franciscanas", etc., p. 311.
20
Op. cit., pp.
311- 312.
21
Op. cit., pp.
314-315.
" "Cavineña", pp.
117- 120.
The Tacana glossary occurs again on pp.
117- 118;
and
again on pp.
119- 120.
2 3
Pag.
23-24;
cf.
also pp.
17, 18
and p.
19.
2 ''
"Studies", pp.
15- 19,
according to the reprint from lhe "Proceedings o! the
American Philosophical Society". Philadelp!¡ia,
1892.
25
Pag.
358;
on p.
300
tllere occur also eight words from the Tacana compared
wilh the corresponding KétSua.
" "Studies", pp.
7- 21.
My quotations are made according to the reprint. ·
27
Op,
cit., pp.
15-19.
'
28
See also "Tacana-English Vocabulary", pp.
19- 21..
29
Settlements of rubber traders in the virgin forest.
30
lt
seems somewhat exaggerated.
31
The copy of the "Manual" l found in 1he library of the "Anthropos" at Sankt
Uabriel-Miidling, is defective, being missing the tille page (lll -
108
pp.).