Oro Win language
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| Oro Win | ||||
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| Spoken in | Brazil | |||
| Native speakers | 6 (2011) (date missing) | |||
| Language family |
Chapacuran
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| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | orw | |||
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Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.
Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, [t͡ʙ̥].
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
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