Marúbo language explained

Marúbo
States:Brazil
Region:Javari River basin
Date:2006
Ref:e18
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Panoan
Fam2:Mainline Panoan
Fam3:Nawa
Fam4:Marubo group
Iso3:mzr
Glotto:maru1252
Glottorefname:Marubo
Ethnicity:Marúbo People

Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.

Features

Marubo is an agglutinative language with and SOV word order.[1] It has a graded tense system where what tense is used it determined by the distance in time between the time of reference (usually the time of speaking) and the time in which the mentioned even happened.[2] Marubo, unlike most Panoan languages, does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

LabialAlveolarPost-
alveolar
PalatalVelar
Stoppronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Affricatepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Fricativepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Nasalpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Rhoticpronounced as /link/
Approximantpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/

Vowels

FrontCentralBack
Highpronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
Lowpronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/

Status

The Marubo Language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese.[5]

Sample text

EnglishMarubo[6]
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.Txitavíanamã, mai shoviti vevo,“Vana” atõ aká ivo ayase.a Aa Vanaro yora ikítõ ikí Yové Koĩnĩ nióti. Aaivo Vanaro Yové Koĩserívi

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marubo Words . 2024-06-11 . www.native-languages.org.
  2. Web site: Marubo . 2024-06-11 . TIPs . en-US.
  3. Web site: https://academic.oup.com/book/43795/chapter-abstract/370727287?redirectedFrom=fulltext . 2024-06-11 . academic.oup.com.
  4. Book: Costa, Raquel Guimarães Romankevicius . Aspectos da fonologia Marubo (Pano): uma visão não-linear . Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . 2000.
  5. Web site: Promotora Española de Lingüística . 2024-06-11 . www.proel.org.
  6. Web site: João 1 . 2024-06-11 . www.scriptureearth.org.