Oro Win language
Encyclopedia
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 dental bilabially trilled affricate, [t͡ʙ̥].
Chapacura-Wanham languages
The Chapacuran languages are a nearly extinct Native American language family of South America. There are three living Chapacuran languages, which are spoken in the southeastern Amazon Basin of Brazil and Bolivia. The languages in the family are classified into the Madeira and Guapore groups...
spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River
Pacaás Novos River
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in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
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Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless dental bilabially trilled affricate, [t͡ʙ̥].
Literature
- 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.
External links
- Ethnologue
- 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.