Oro Win language
| Oro Win | |
|---|---|
| Region | Brazil |
| Ethnicity | 55 (1998)[1] |
Native speakers | 2 (2010)[1] |
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Chapacuran
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| 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
- Everett, Daniel; & Kern, B. (1996). Wari’: The Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil. London: Routledge.
- Ladefoged, Peter; Everett, Daniel. (1996). The status of phonetic rarities. Language, 72 (4), 794–800.
References
- 1 2 Oro Win at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Oro Win". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Birchall, Joshua. "Oro Win Language". Programa Povos Indígenas no Brasil do Instituto. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
External links
- Oro Win: Povos Indígenas no Brasil - Instituto Socioambiental
- Linguistics Professor Discovers New Language in Brazilian Rain Forest. Pittsburgh University Times v. 27 n. 4 (1994). (offline, but see this copy)
- UCLA Phonetics Lab Data – recordings of [t͡ʙ̥] in Oro Win.
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