Sirionó language

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Sirionó
Mbia cheë
Native to	Bolivia
Region	Beni Department, Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)
Ethnicity	Sirionó people, Yuqui people
Native speakers	300 (2012)[1]
Language family	Tupian Tupí–Guaraní Guarayu Sirionó
Official status
Official language in	Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: srq – Sirionó yuq – Yuqui (Yúki) jor – Jorá (Hora)†
Glottolog	siri1279  Siriono–Jora yuqu1240  Yuqui
ELP	Sirionó
	Yuki[2]
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Sirionó (Mbia Cheë;^[3] also written as Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 Sirionó people (50 are monolingual) and 120 Yuqui in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments) in the village of Ibiato (Eviato) and along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

Sirionó has phonemic contrasts between front, central, and back, close and mid vowels, i.e.

• Firestone, Homer L. (1965). Description and Classification of Sirionó. London: Mouton.
• Holmberg, Allan. (1958). The Sirionó. In J. Steward (Ed.), Handbook of South American Indians: The Tropical Forest Tribes (Vol. 3, pp. 455–463. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Holmberg, Allan. (1969). Nomads of the Long Bow: The Sirionó of Eastern Bolivia (rev. ed.). Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.
• Ingham, John M. (1971). Are the Siriono Raw or Cooked? American Anthropologist, 73 (5), 1092-1099.
• Priest, Perry N.; Priest, Anne M.; & Grimes, Joseph E. (1961). Simultaneous Orderings in Sirionó (Guaraní). International Journal of American Linguistics, 27, 335-44.
• Scheffler, Harold W. (1972). Systems of Kin Classification: A Structural Typology. In P. Reining (Ed.), Kinship Studies in the Morgan Centennial Year (pp. 111–33). Washington, D.C.: Anthropological Society of Washington.
• Scheffler, Harold W.; & Lounsbury, Floyd G. (1971). A Study in Structural Semantics: The Sirionó Kinship System. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

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For a list of words relating to Sirionó language, see the Sirionó language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Sirionó dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
• PROEL: Lengua Sirionó
• Language Museum: Sirionó (bible translation)
• Environment, Culture, and Sirionó Plant Names
• Lenguas de Bolivia (online edition)
• Sirionó (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)

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