Arikapú language
| Arikapú | |
|---|---|
| Maxubí | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Rondônia, at the headwaters of the Rio Branco |
| Ethnicity | 32 (2009)[1] |
Native speakers | 2 (2009)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ark |
| Glottolog |
arik1265[2] |
Arikapú or Maxubí is an endangered Yabutian language that in 1998 was spoken by only six individuals in Rondônia, Brazil, at the headwaters of the Rio Branco. It is being supplanted by Portuguese.
Phonology
| a | ä | b | d | dj | e | h | i | ï | k | ' | m | n | o | p | r | t | tx | u | ü | y | w |
Nasalisation is indicated by a tilde on the vowel : ⟨ã ä̃ ẽ ĩ õ ũ⟩.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ | u ũ |
| Near-close | ɪ | ||
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Mid | ə ə̃ | ||
| Open | a ãʌ̃ |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ʼ /ʔ/ | ||
| Affricate | tx /t͡ʃ/ | |||||
| Fricative | h | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Approximant | y /j/ | w | ||||
| Flap | r /ɾ/ |
References
- 1 2 Arikapú at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Arikapu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- Arikapú basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
- Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Arikapú". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
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