Tamanaku_language

Tamanaku language

Tamanaku language

Extinct Cariban language of Venezuela

Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.

Quick Facts Native to, Extinct ...

The earliest word list of Tamanaku was published by Gilij in 1780, from his 20-year stay among the Tamanku beginning around 1750.[2]

Phonology

Consonants

More information Bilabial, Alveolar ...

Stops may have voiced allophones of [b d ɡ]. Allophones of /p, n, r/ include [β h ɲ l].[3]

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...

References

  1. [1]
    Tamanaku at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Meira S, Birchall J, Chousou-Polydouri S. 2015. A character-based internal classification of the Cariban family. Talk presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguisticae Europaea, Leiden, Netherlands, Sept. 4.
  3. [3]
    Melles, Gavin (1991). Reseña: Marie Claude Mattéi-Muller y P. Henley - Los tamanaku: su lengua, su vida.


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