Hup language

Hup
Hupdë
Pronunciation	[húpʔɨ̌d]
Native to	Brazil
Ethnicity	Hupd'ëh, Yohup
Native speakers	1,700 (2006–2007)[1]
Language family	Nadahup Hup
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: jup – Hup yab – Yuhup (Yahup)
Glottolog	hupy1235[2]

The Hup language (also called Hupdë,^[3] Hupdá, Hupdé, Hupdá Makú, Jupdá, Macú, Makú-Hupdá, Macú De, Hupda, and Jupde) is one of the four Nadahup languages. It is spoken by the Hupda and Yohup, indigenous Amazonian peoples who live in Brazil and Colombia. There are at least three main dialects of Hupdë, of which Yohup (Yuhupde, Yahup) is so distinct that native speakers report limited mutual intelligibility.^[4] Hupdë is considered an inferior language by the neighbouring peoples of the Hupda. This has led to all adult Hupda becoming bilingual, speaking both Hupdë and Tucanoan. The bilingualism is one-sided, however, as native speakers of Tucanoan do not believe Hupdë to be a language worth learning.^[5] Hupdë is a nominative–accusative language,^[6] with a highly developed evidentiality system.^[7]

Phonology

Consonants

Hup has glottalized consonants of both stops and approximants which can be seen in the chart below.^[8]This language also has nasal allophones of the voiced stops.^[8]

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Glottalized Stop	b'	d'	j'	g'
Unvoiced Stop	p	t	c	k	ʔ
Voiced Stop	b	d	j	g
Fricative			ç		h
Glottalized Approximant	w'		y'
Approximant	w		y

Vowels

While this language has nasal vowels, as well, they are not contrastive with the oral counterparts.^[8]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open	æ	a	ɔ

References

1. Hup at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Yuhup (Yahup) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Hup–Yuhup". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. The letter ë stands for [ə].
4. Christopher Moseley (2007). Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. Routledge. p. 132. ISBN 0-7007-1197-X.
5. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon (2006). Grammars in Contact. Oxford University Press. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-19-920783-6.
6. Robert M. W. Dixon; Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (1999). The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 404. ISBN 0-521-57021-2.
7. Epps, Patience (2005). Areal diffusion and the development of evidentiality: Evidence from Hup. Studies in Language, 29:617-650.
8. Epps, Patience (2008). A Grammar of Hup. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Patience Epps (2008) A Grammar of Hup. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Moore, Barbara J.; Franklin, Gail L. Breves notícias da língua Maku-Hupda. Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979

External links

• Hup Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
• Hup basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• Hup Collection of Patience Epps at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Contains audio recordings and transcriptions of Hup language materials, "most from the Middle Tiquié River (primarily villages of Tat Dëh / Taracua Igarapé and Barreira Alta). A few texts from other communities, including Umari Norte of the upper Tiquié."