Umotína language

Umotína
Native to Brazil
Region Mato Grosso
Native speakers
1 (2007)[1]
(reported extinct 1988)
Bororoan
  • Borôro proper

    • Umotína
Language codes
ISO 639-3 umo
Glottolog umot1240[2]

Umotína is a nearly extinct language of Brazil. It is one of the few languages in the world with linguolabial consonants.

References

  1. Umotína at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Umotína". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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