Talk:Huaorani language

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hi. do you know why Lyle Campbell & Terrence Kaufman both use Sabela in their South American surveys? is this an older term that is being replaced? – ishwar  (speak) 01:15, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (www.ailla.utexas.org) also lists this language under Sabela. – ishwar  (speak) 03:31, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Sabela (sometimes Ssabela) was the name used by researchers in the early 20th century, but I can't find why, the SIL and DINEIIB orthographies don't include an 's' sound, so it must be another people's word for them. This seems to be a general problem, but thankfully one that doesn't place the relevant wiki standards (most common usage, clearest self-identified term) in conflict, since the early linguistic work hasn't resulted in nearly as much discussion as later evangelization and concern about the oil conflict. --Carwil 01:39, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

I have a *very* vague recollection, from having talked with Catherine Peeke (an SIL linguist who worked many years in Wao Tededo) that 'Ssabela' is a name that explorers gave to an ethnic group somewhere in the vicinity of the Wao territory, but that the few recorded words of this Ssabela language--if it even is a language--were not identifiable as Wao (nor as Zaparo, nor any of the other languages extant in the area from the 1950s through 1990s). I just checked her pedagogical grammar and don't see any mention of Ssabela; I don't have a copy of her technical grammar. The earlier Saint and Pike phonology does mention 'sabelo' in a footnote, but only in passing, referring to a McQuown 1955 article in American Anthropologist (57:501-570). The Ethnologue lists 'Sabela' as another name for Waorani, so maybe my recollection of what Catherine said is wrong. But as Carwil said, there's no /s/ in Wao Tededo.

BTW, Catherine Peeke wrote a bibliography of Wao, available at http://www.sil.org/silewp/2003/silewp2003-006.pdf.

Mcswell 16:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)