Enawene Nawe is a Southern Arawakan language spoken by about 570 people in Halataikwa and Kolinakwa in the Enawenê-nawê Indigeous Land near the Iquê River, a tributary of the Juruena River, in the west of the State of Mato Grosso in western Brazil. Most Enawene Nawe people are monolingual in Enawene Nawe and only a few speak Portuguese, although this is changing as they have more contact with outsiders.
Enawene Nawe is also known as Enawené-Nawé, Enawenê-Nawê, Eneuene-Mare, and used to be known as Salumã. It is written with the Latin script.
Download an alphabet chart for Enawene Nawe (Excel)
Iñoti aõre
Awita iñoti ixoa enawene nawe dote hẽ.
Halakota ketekwa wixoma ko hase wata wene karĩ.
Halakota maha we to kwa
Halakota wetanĩ enahare
Ihi hõkwa deeta wetañi enehare
Ini hõkwa deeta wetanĩ ani hai hihõk kodaketiwa atoke na weairi hi kwa
Kodaketiwa brasil akote enawene nawe ĩkyari ewayati dotehe.
Tanarĩ mahõkwaniri darayti hixon
Awamenakatiar enaharihĩxo.
Yatakwa daraiti enawene dotehe hixon enawene nawe o kwa.
Chief of the non-Indians,
Our land is very important to us.
We don't want our territory invaded.
Where will we plant corn and look for fish?
Where will we get honey?
Where will our children grow?
Many years ago our ancestors showed us our lands, it was here
that our people were born. Here our people grew up.
Because you made an ugly writing of our land.
Don't be silly, chief, you have to be smart.
Write down our traditional territory right away.
The Enawene Nawe are the ones who speak.
Source: Daraiti Ahã: Escrita alfabética entre os Enawene Nawe (Daraiti Ahã: Alphabetical writing among Enawene Nawe)
Information about Enawene Nawe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enawene_Nawe_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enawene_Nawe
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Língua_enauenê-nauê
https://pib.socioambiental.org/en/Povo:Enawenê-nawê
http://www.language-archives.org/language/unk
https://www.elararchive.org/dk0572/
https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/100997
Achagua, Apurinã, Arawak, Asháninka, Ashéninka, Baniwa, Baniwa of Guainía, Baure, Caquinte, Chamicuro, Curripaco, Enawene Nawe, Garifuna, Iñapari, Machiguenga, Nanti, Nomatsiguenga, Palikúr, Paraujuano, Paresi, Pauna, Piapoco, Taíno, Tariana, Terêna, Wapishana, Wayuu, Yanesha', Yine, Yucuna
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 20.01.25. Last modified: 20.01.25
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