Social:Yanomamö language
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Short description: One of several languages spoken by the Yanomami people of Brazil
| Yanomamö | |
|---|---|
| Yąnomamɨ | |
| Native to | Venezuela, Brazil |
| Region | Orinoco–Mavaca; Amazonas |
| Ethnicity | Yanomami |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2000–2006)[1] |
Yanomam
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | guu |
| Glottolog | yano1261[2] |
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Yanomamö (Yąnomamɨ) is the most populous of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people. Most speakers are monolingual. It has no natively-used writing system. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.
Phonology
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | p | t | k | (ʔ) | ||
| aspirated | tʰ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | w | (l) | j | ||||
/ɾ/ can also alternate to a lateral approximant [l] sound. A glottal stop sound [ʔ] can be heard intervocalically.[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, ĩ | ɨ, ɨ̃ | u, ũ |
| Mid | e, ẽ | ə | o, õ |
| Open | a, ã |
References
- ↑ Yanomamö at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Yanomamö". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yano1261.
- ↑ Ferreira, Helder Perri (2017). Yanomama Clause Structure. Utrecht: LOT. ISBN 978-94-6093-258-8. https://www.lotpublications.nl/Documents/475_fulltext_part1.pdf.
- ↑ Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Dixon, R.M.W. (1999). The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521570213.
- ↑ Lizot, Jacques (2004). Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmī. Vicariato Apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho. ISBN 9789806800007. OCLC 61157955.
Further reading
- Ferreira, Helder Perri (2017). Yanomama Clause Structure: Proefschrift. ISBN 978-94-6093-260-1. https://www.lotpublications.nl/Documents/475_fulltext_part2.pdf.
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