ñanno

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ñanno
Brazilian standard	nhanno
New Tribes	ñanno

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *injamo (animate plural anaphoric demonstrative pronoun) *rô (emphatic particle), the former from *inôrô (animate singular anaphoric demonstrative pronoun) *-jamo (collective suffix). Compare Trió namo, Wayana inamolo, Waiwai ñešamro, Kari'na inaro(n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɲanno]

Pronoun

ñanno

1. (Caura River dialect) the animate plural invisible demonstrative pronoun; those (that I can’t see)
2. (Cunucunuma River dialect) the animate plural distal demonstrative pronoun; those

Inflection

Ye'kwana demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun	animate pronoun		deictic adverb
Caura River dialect	Cunucunuma River dialect		singular	plural	speaker	anaphoric	land	side	watercourse	approximate
proximal	proximal	edö,Y e'döD	mö'dö	—	eetö		eese		eesemjo	sadö
medial		mödö	mööyö,Y möödhö,D mööñöV	kanno	—	möötö	—	—	—	—
distal	medial	möönü	mökkü	makkamo	inña	möntö	mönse	aneeseja	mönsemjo	maadö
invisible	distal	iyö,Y iiyöD	ñöödö	ñanno	—	yöötö	unwaa	—	—	—
Y. Caura River dialect. D. Cunucunuma River dialect. V. Alto Ventuari River dialect.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ñanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 122
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ñanno”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 283, 396
• Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages‎^[2], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275