Oro_Win

Oro Win language

Oro Win language

Moribund Chapacuran language of Brazil

Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.

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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]

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Literature

References

  1. [1]
    Oro Win language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    "Oro Win". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  3. [3]
    Birchall, Joshua. "Oro Win Language". Programa Povos Indígenas no Brasil do Instituto. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
  4. [4]
    "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-22.


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