Siona (otherwise known as Bain Coca, Pioje, Pioche-Sioni, Ganteyabain, Ganteya, Ceona, Zeona, Koka, Kanú) is a Tucanoan language of Colombia and Ecuador.
The language is essentially the same as Secoya, but speakers are ethnically distinct.
Siona | |
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Gantëya coca | |
Native to | Colombia, Ecuador |
Region | Putumayo River |
Ethnicity | Siona people, Teteté people |
Native speakers | 500 (2000–2008) |
Tucanoan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:snn – Sionateb – Teteté |
Glottolog | sion1247 |
ELP | |
As of 2013, Siona is spoken by about 550 people. Teteté dialect (Eteteguaje) is extinct.
There are 6 oral vowels and six nasal vowels. Only nasal vowels occur next to a nasal consonant /m/ or /n/.
Back | Central | Front | |
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High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
Mid | ɛ æ̃ | o õ | |
Low | a ã |
There are two series of obstruent consonant. Both often produce a noticeable delay before the onset of the following vowel: the 'fortis' series (written p t č k kw s h hw) tends to be aspirated, with a noisy transition to the vowel, while the 'lenis' series (written b d g gw ’ z), optionally voiced, is glottalized, with a silent transition to the vowel, which in turn tends to be laryngealized. The glottal stop is faint, and noticeable primarily in the laryngealizing effect it has on adjacent vowels.
bilabial | alveolar | prepalatal | velar | labio-velar | glottal | ||
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Plosive | fortis | pʰ | t̪ʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | kʷʰ | ʔ |
lenis | pˀ ~ bˀ | ʈˀ ~ ɖˀ ~ ɾ | kˀ ~ ɡˀ | kʷˀ ~ ɡʷˀ | |||
Fricative | s ; sˀ ~ zˀ | h ; hʷ | |||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Semivowel | j ~ ɲ | w |
/ʈˀ/ is realized as [ɾ] between vowels. /j/ is realized as [ɲ] next to nasal vowels.
Stress is obligatory on all verb stems, root words, and some suffixes. It disappears when the syllable is not the nucleus of a phonological word. Some monosyllabic morphemes have both stressed and unstressed forms. Although the position of stress within a word is not contrastive, vocalic and consonantal allophony depends on whether a syllable is stressed. Initial stressed vowels followed by unstressed vowels are long and have a falling tone.
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