Umotína language

Umotína
Native to Brazil
Region Mato Grosso
Extinct 2003[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 umo
Glottolog umot1240[2]

Umotína is a recently extinct language of Brazil.

Phonology

It is one of the few languages in the world to have a linguolabial consonant; in unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury reported it has the voiceless linguolabial plosive: //.[3][4]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Umotína". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Martin, Samuel E. (1956). "Review of A Manual of Phonology". Language. 32 (4): 683. doi:10.2307/411090. JSTOR 411090.
  3. Olson, Kenneth S.; Reiman, D. William; Sabio, Fernando; da Silva, Filipe Alberto (2013). "The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko". Journal of West African Languages. 42 (2): 63.



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