Nadëb language
Nadëb | |
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Kaburi | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Amazonas |
Ethnicity | 850 (2010)[1] |
Native speakers | 370 (2011)[2] |
Nadahup
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mbj |
Glottolog |
nade1244 [3] |
Nadëb or Kaburi is a Nadahup language of the Brazilian Amazon, along the Uneiuxi, Japura, and Negro rivers. Various names for it include Nadöbö, Xïriwai, Hahöb, Guariba/Wariwa, Kaborí, Anodöub, sometimes compounded with the term Maku, as in Maku do Paraná Boá-Boá after one of the rivers in Nadëb territory.
Phonology
Front | Back | ||
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unrounded | rounded | ||
Close | i | ɯ | u |
Close-mid | e | ɤ | o |
Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ |
Open | a |
All vowels except for /e, ɤ, o/ are nasalized.[4]
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | |||
Fricative | ʃ | h | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Approximant | j | w | |||||
Flap | ɾ |
References
- ↑
- ↑ "Nadëb". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nadeb". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
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