| Oro Win | |
|---|---|
| Region | Brazil |
| Ethnicity | 55 (1998)[1] |
Native speakers | 5 (2011)[2] |
Chapacuran
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | orw |
| Glottolog | orow1243 |
| ELP | Orowari |
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]
Phonology[4][edit]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | |
| Near-close | ʏ | |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open | a |
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t̪ʙ̥ | t | k | ʔ | |
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Semivowel | j | w |
Literature[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ Oro Win language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Oro Win". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
- ^ Birchall, Joshua. "Oro Win Language". Programa Povos Indígenas no Brasil do Instituto. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
External links[edit]
- 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.