About Sáliba

Page Index

• Introduction
• Grammar
• Phonology
• Follow the path of the Sáliba data

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Introduction

Sáliba, also known as Sáliva, is a Salivan language spoken in Eastern Colombia on the border of Venezuela. According to a 1993 census, there are approximately 1,555 speakers of the language remaining. However, the younger generation is generally not learning the language, which puts the Sáliba language in a precarious position.

Grammar

Sáliba is an SOV language with noun classes and nominal classifiers. The language has a rich morphological system. In some cases, the realization of a verbal morpheme depends upon the form of the stem.

Phonology

Sáliba has a limited voicing distinction, and boasts six places of articulation for plosives. There are also two rhotics, and nasal counterparts for each of the five places of articulation for vowels.

Follow the path of the Sáliba data

1. Get Started: Summary of the Sáliba conversion
2. Digitize Audio: Digitizing Audio page (Classroom)
3. Digitize Images: Digitizing Images page (Classroom)
4. Digitize Text: XML page (Classroom)
5. Create Metadata: Metadata page (Classroom)
6. Web Presentation: Stylesheets page (Classroom)