ñanno

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ñanno
Brazilian standard nhanno
New Tribes ñanno

Etymology

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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

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Pronoun

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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

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References

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  • 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