Oro Win language explained

Oro Win
Region:Brazil
Ethnicity:55 (1998)
Speakers:5
Date:2011
Ref:[1]
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Chapacuran
Fam2:Wari
Iso3:orw
Glotto:orow1243
Glottorefname:Oro Win
Notice:IPA

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, pronounced as /[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.[2]

Phonology[3]

Vowels!!Front!Back
Closepronounced as /link/
Near-closepronounced as /link/
Close-midpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Openpronounced as /link/
Consonants!!Bilabial!Dental!Alveolar!Palatal!Velar!Glottal
Stoppronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Fricativepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Nasalpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Flappronounced as /link/
Semivowelpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/

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Notes and References

  1. News: Oro Win. Ethnologue. 2018-07-22. en.
  2. Web site: Birchall. Joshua. Oro Win Language. Programa Povos Indígenas no Brasil do Instituto. 2012-12-30.
  3. Web site: SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories. linguistics.berkeley.edu. en. 2018-07-22.