Japreria language
Japrería (Yapreria) is a Cariban language of Venezuela.
| Japrería | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Venezuela |
| Ethnicity | 216[1] |
Native speakers | 170 (2002 census)[2] |
Cariban
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jru |
| Glottolog | japr1238[3] |
Orthography
- a - [a]
- ch/č - [t͡ʃ]
- e - [e]
- ë - [ə]
- i - [i]
- h/j - [h]
- j/x - [x]
- k/c/qu - [k]
- m - [m]
- n - [n]
- o - [o]
- p - [p]
- r - [ɾ]
- ŕ - [ʁ]
- s - [s]
- sh/š - [ʃ]
- t - [t]
- u - [u]
- ü/y/ɨ -[ɨ]
- v - [ʋ]
- y/j - [j] [4]
Phonology
Japreria has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.[5]
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||
| Flap | ɾ |
References
- Japreria language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Japrería at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Japreria". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Japreria language at Omniglot
- "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
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