Oro Win language

Oro Win
Region Brazil
Ethnicity 55 (1998)[1]
Native speakers
2 (2010)[1]
Chapacuran
  • Wari

    • Oro Win
Language codes
ISO 639-3 orw
Glottolog orow1243[2]

Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.

Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, [t͡ʙ̥].

As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age.[3]

Literature

References

  1. 1 2 Oro Win at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Oro Win". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Birchall, Joshua. "Oro Win Language". Programa Povos Indígenas no Brasil do Instituto. Retrieved 2012-12-30.

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