Английская Википедия:Garifuna language

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Garifuna (Karif) is a minority language widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America.

It is a member of the Arawakan language family but an atypical one since it is spoken outside the Arawakan language area, which is otherwise now confined to the northern parts of South America, and because it contains an unusually high number of loanwords, from both Carib languages and a number of European languages because of an extremely tumultuous past involving warfare, migration and colonization.

The language was once confined to the Antillean islands of St. Vincent and Dominica, but its speakers, the Garifuna people, were deported by the British in 1797 to the north coast of Honduras[1] from where the language and Garifuna people has since spread along the coast south to Nicaragua and north to Guatemala and Belize.

Parts of Garifuna vocabulary are split between men's speech and women's speech, and some concepts have two words to express them, one for women and one for men. Moreover, the terms used by men are generally loanwords from Carib while those used by women are Arawak.

The Garifuna language was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2008 along with Garifuna music and dance.[2]

Distribution

Garifuna is spoken in Central America, especially in Honduras (146,000 speakers),Шаблон:Citation needed but also in Guatemala (20,000 speakers), Belize (14,100 speakers), Nicaragua (2,600 speakers), and the US, particularly in New York City, where it is spoken in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx,[3] and in Houston, which has had a community of Central Americans since the 1980s.[4] The first feature film in the Garifuna language, Garifuna in Peril, was released in 2012.[5]

Sociolinguistic historyШаблон:Anchor

The Garinagu (singular Garifuna) are a mix of West/Central African, Arawak, and Carib ancestry. Though they were captives removed from their homelands, these people were never documented as slaves. The two prevailing theories are that they were the survivors of two recorded shipwrecks or they somehow took over the ship on which they came. The more Western and Central African-looking people were deported by the British from Saint Vincent to islands in the Bay of Honduras in 1796.[6]

Their linguistic ancestors, Carib people, who gave their name to the Caribbean, once lived throughout the Lesser Antilles, and although their language is now extinct there, ethnic Caribs still live on Dominica, Trinidad, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent. The Caribs had conquered the previous population of the islands, Arawakan peoples like the Taino and Palikur peoples. During the conquest, which was conducted primarily by men, the Carib took Arawakan women for wives. Children were raised by their mothers speaking Arawak, but as boys came of age, their fathers taught them Carib, a language still spoken in mainland South America.

Descriptions of Island Carib people in the 17th century missionaries from Europe record the use of two languages: Carib as spoken by the men, and Arawak as spoken by the women. It is conjectured that the males retained the core Carib vocabulary while the grammatical structure of their language mirrored that or Arawak. As such, Island Carib as spoken by males is considered either a mixed language or a relexified language. The West African influence in Garifuna is limited to a handful of loanwords and perhaps intonation. Contrary to what some believe, there is no influence from "African phonetics" as there is no such thing as a singular African phonetic system as languages in West Africa and Africa in general have extremely diverse phoneme inventories. The distinction between Garifuna and the Kalinago language can be explained by simple evolution due to the separation of the Garifuna being sent to Central America.


Vocabulary

The vocabulary of Garifuna is composed as follows:Шаблон:Cn

  • 45% Arawak (Igneri)
  • 25% Carib (Kallínagu)
  • 15% French
  • 10% English
  • 5% Spanish or English technical terms

Also, there also some few words from African languages. Шаблон:Citation needed

Comparison to Carib

[7][8]
Meaning Garifuna Carib
man Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
woman Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
European Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang (one from the sea, Шаблон:Lang)
good Шаблон:Lang (in older texts, the f was a p) Шаблон:Lang
anger/hate Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
weapon/whip Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
garden Шаблон:Lang (in older texts, Шаблон:Lang) Шаблон:Lang
small vessel Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
bird Шаблон:Lang (in older texts, Шаблон:Lang) Шаблон:Lang
housefly Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
tree Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
lizard/iguana Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
star Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
sun Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
rain Шаблон:Lang (in older texts, Шаблон:Lang) Шаблон:Lang
wind Шаблон:Lang (in older texts Шаблон:Lang) Шаблон:Lang
fire Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
mountain Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
water, river Шаблон:Lang (in older texts Шаблон:Lang) Шаблон:Lang
sea Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
sand Шаблон:Lang (in older texts Шаблон:Lang) Шаблон:Lang
path Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
stone Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
island Шаблон:Lang (in earlier texts, Шаблон:Lang) Шаблон:Lang

Gender differences

Relatively few examples of diglossia remain in common speech. It is possible for men and women to use different words for the same concept such as Шаблон:Lang for the pronoun "I", but most such words are rare and often dropped by men. For example, there are distinct Carib and Arawak words for "man" and "women", four words altogether, but in practice, the generic term Шаблон:Lang "person" is used by both men and women and for both men and women, with grammatical gender agreement on a verb, adjective, or demonstrative, distinguishing whether Шаблон:Lang refers to a man or to a woman (Шаблон:Lang "the man", Шаблон:Lang "the woman").

There remains, however, a diglossic distinction in the grammatical gender of many inanimate nouns, with abstract words generally being considered grammatically feminine by men and grammatically masculine by women. Thus, the word Шаблон:Lang may mean either concrete "sun" or abstract "day"; with the meaning of "day", most men use feminine agreement, at least in conservative speech, while women use masculine agreement. The equivalent of the abstract impersonal pronoun in phrases like "it is necessary" is also masculine for women but feminine in conservative male speech.

Phonology

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink
Plosive voiceless Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink
voiced Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink
Fricative Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink
Approximant Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink
Tap/Flap Шаблон:IPAlink
Vowels
Front Central Back
Close Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink
Mid Шаблон:IPAlink~Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink~Шаблон:IPAlink
Open Шаблон:IPAlink

[o] and [e] are allophones of /ɔ/ and /ɛ/.[9]

Grammar

Personal pronouns

Independent personal pronouns in Garifuna distinguish the social gender of the speaker:

singular,
male speaker
singular,
female speaker
plural
1st person au nugía wagía
2nd person amürü bugía hugía

The forms au and amürü are of Cariban origin, and the others are of Arawakan origin. All speakers use the third-person pronouns ligía (masculine singular), tuguya (feminine singular), and hagía (plural).

Number

Garifuna distinguishes singular and plural numbers for some human nouns. The marking of in nouns is realized through suffixes:

  • isâni "child" – isâni-gu "children"
  • wügüri "man" – wügüri-ña "men"
  • hiñaru "woman" – hiñáru-ñu "women"
  • itu "sister" – ítu-nu "sisters"

The plural of Garífuna is Garínagu.

Plural animate nouns use animate plural agreement on verbs and other sentence elements. Inanimate nouns do not show plural agreement.

Possession

Possession on nouns is expressed by personal prefixes:

  • ibágari "life"
  • n-ibágari "my life"
  • b-ibágari "your (singular) life"
  • l-ibágari "his life"
  • t-ibágari "her life"
  • wa-bágari "our life"
  • h-ibágari "your (plural) life"
  • ha-bágari "their life"

Verb

For the Garifuna verb, the grammatical tense, grammatical aspect, grammatical mood, negation, and person (both subject and object) are expressed by affixes (mostly suffixes), partly supported by particles (second-position enclitics).

The paradigms of grammatical conjugation are numerous.

Examples

The conjugation of the verb alîha "to read" in the present continuous tense:

  • n-alîha-ña "I am reading"
  • b-alîha-ña "you (singular) are reading"
  • l-alîha-ña "he is reading"
  • t-alîha-ña "she is reading"
  • wa-lîha-ña "we are reading"
  • h-alîha-ña "you (plural) are reading"
  • ha-lîha-ña "they are reading"


The conjugation of the verb alîha "to read" in the simple present/past tense:

  • alîha-tina "I read"
  • alîha-tibu "you (singular) read"
  • alîha-ti "he reads"
  • alîha-tu "she reads"
  • alîha-tiwa "we read"
  • alîha-tiü "you (plural) read"
  • alîha-tiñu "they (masculine) read"
  • alîha-tiña "they (feminine) read"


There are also some irregular verbs.

Numerals

From "3" upwards, the numbers of Garifuna are exclusively of French origin and are based on the vigesimal system,Шаблон:Citation needed which, in today's French, is apparent at "80":

The reason for the use of French borrowings rather than Carib or Arawak terms is unclear, but may have to do with their succinctness, as numbers in indigenous American languages, especially those above ten, tend to be longer and more cumbersome.Шаблон:Citation needed

Syntax

The word order is verb–subject–object (VSO, fixed).[10]

Morphology

Garifuna is an agglutinative language.[10]

Notes

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Further reading

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References

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External links

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