adawa'ta

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	adawa'ta
Brazilian standard	adaawa'ta
New Tribes	adaawa'ta

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban [Term?]; compare Kari'na arawata, Trió arawata, Wayana alawata, Apalaí arauta, Akawaio arawta, Pemon arauta, Macushi arauta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aɾ̠aːwaʔta]

Noun

adawa'ta

1. the Colombian red howler monkey, Alouatta seniculus

References

• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “adaua’ta”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[1] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 385: “adawa'ta - araguato monkey (Alouatta seniculus)”