Charrúan Anthroponyms From Cayastá (1758-1760): Some Linguistic Observations

The present paper is based on three lists of Charrúa anthroponyms, compiled in the years 1758 and 1760 in the reduction of Nuestra Señora de Cayastá (current community of Cayastá, province of Santa Fe, Argentina), and published by Bracco (2016). The goal of the paper is to interpret linguistically a...

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Author: Viegas Barros, J. Pedro
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/43279
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/43279
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:charrúa
anthroponymy
sociolinguistics
morphology
phonology
antroponimia
sociolingüística
morfología
fonología
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Summary:The present paper is based on three lists of Charrúa anthroponyms, compiled in the years 1758 and 1760 in the reduction of Nuestra Señora de Cayastá (current community of Cayastá, province of Santa Fe, Argentina), and published by Bracco (2016). The goal of the paper is to interpret linguistically as much data as possible from these anthroponyms. The methods used in this research were: comparison of the three lists, philological critic, and internal analysis of the data, comparison with other recordings of Charrúa language, and comparison with genealogically related languages. The results obtained allow us to propose several hypotheses about the poorly known language Charrúa, in regard to aspects such as sociolinguistics, morphology, and phonetics/phonology.