| Yanam | |
| Nativename: | Ninam |
| States: | Brazil, Venezuela |
| Speakers: | 470 in Brazil |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Speakers2: | 560 in Venezuela (2010) (excluding Yaroamë) |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Yanomam |
| Iso3: | shb |
| Glotto: | nina1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Ninam |
| Map: | Yanomaman.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Yanomaman languages location |
Yanam, or Ninam, is a Yanomaman language spoken in Roraima, Brazil (800 speakers) and southern Venezuela near the Mucajai, upper Uraricaá, and Paragua rivers.
Yanam is also known by the following names: Ninam, Yanam–Ninam, Xirianá, Shiriana Casapare, Kasrapai, Jawaperi, Crichana, Jawari, Shiriana, Eastern Yanomaman.
Gordon (2009) reports 2 main varieties (Northern, Southern). Kaufman (1994) reports 3:
The name Jawari is shared with Yaroamë.
There are three dialects spoken in Roraima, Brazil according to Ferreira, et al. (2019):[1]
The remaining speakers of Arutani and Sapé also speak Ninam (Shirián), since they now mostly live in Ninam villages.[2] [3]
Yanam has seven base vowels. Yanam has both vowel length and nasalization, and both features can occur simultaneously, for all vowels except for /ɨ/.[4]
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | aspirated | ||||||
| Stop | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Flap | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||