Jump to content

Aranama language

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aranama
Tamique, Hanáma
Native toUnited States
RegionTexas
EthnicityAranama, Tamique
Extinctlate 19th century
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3xrt
Glottologaran1265
Pre-contact distribution of the Aranama language

Aranama – also known as Araname, Haname, or Tamique – is an extinct unclassified language of Texas, US. It was spoken by the Aranama and Tamique peoples at the Franciscan mission of Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga. It is only known from a two-word phrase from a non-native speaker: himiána tsáyi 'give me water!'.[1] Variations on the name are Taranames, Jaranames ~ Xaranames ~ Charinames, Chaimamé, Hanáma ~ Hanáme.[2]

Vocabulary

[edit]

In 1884, Albert Gatschet recorded one word and a two-word phrase from "Old Simon," a Tonkawa man who also served as an informant for the Karankawa language, of which a short vocabulary was recorded. According to Old Simon, the words were from a language that he referred to as "Hanáma" (or "Háname"):[3]:193

  • himiyána 'water'
  • himiaʹna tsaʹyi 'Give me water!'[4]

Lexical comparison

[edit]

Below is a comparison of words from selected nearby languages in Zamponi (2024):[4]

languageAranamaCoahuilteco[5] Solano[6] Tonkawa[7] W. Atakapa[8] Karankawa[9] Cotoname[6] Comecrudo[6]
'give me' tsaʹyi-a·xa sieh k-e·ke-w hiʹ-mic baHúšb[a] ayemaʹ 'give'
'water' himiyaʹnawan apam ʔa·x ka(u)ʹkau klej aʹx̣ aʹx̣


See also

[edit]

Notes

[edit]
  1. H stands for the unclear and putative value of <h> in French and Spanish sources.

References

[edit]
  1. Swanton, John Reed (1940). "Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico". Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin. 127: 1–145. hdl:10088/15429.
  2. Craig H. Roell, "NUESTRA SENORA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO DE ZUNIGA MISSION," Handbook of Texas Online , accessed July 12, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
  3. Mithun, Marianne (2017). "Language Isolates". In Campbell, Lyle (ed.). Language Isolates of North America. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge. pp. 193–228. doi:10.4324/9781315750026. ISBN 9781315750026.
  4. 1 2 Zamponi, Raoul (2024). "Unclassified languages". The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America. De Gruyter. pp. 1627–1648. doi:10.1515/9783110712742-061. ISBN 978-3-11-071274-2.
  5. Troike, Rudolph C. 1996. "Sketch of Coahuilteco, a language isolate of Texas". In Ives Goddard (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 17: Languages, 644–665. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
  6. 1 2 3 Swanton, John R. 1940. Linguistic material from the tribes of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 127). Washington: Government Printing Office.
  7. Hoijer, Harry; Wier, Thomas R., eds. (2018). Tonkawa texts: a new linguistic edition. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-5899-0.
  8. Gatschet, Albert S. & John R. Swanton. 1932. Dictionary of the Atakapa language accompanied by text material. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 108). Washington: Government Printing Office.
  9. Grant, Anthony P. (1994-01-01). "Karankawa linguistic Materials". Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics. doi:10.17161/KWPL.1808.318. hdl:1808/318. ISSN 1043-3805.