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Cubeo
Pronunciation
Interjection
jápia
- denotes familiarity and brotherhood (apparently the vestige of a kinship term now only used among women, often added to imperatives to soften them).
See also
References
- N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "jápia", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
- N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN