Yanomamö language
| Yanomamö | |
|---|---|
| Yąnomamɨ | |
| Native to | Yanomam
|
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | guu |
| Glottolog | yano1261 |
| ELP | Yanomamö |
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Yanomamö (Yąnomamɨ) is the most populous of several closely related languages spoken by the
Yanomami people. Most speakers are monolingual. It has no natively-used writing system. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages
.
Phonology
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | p | t
|
k | (ʔ) | ||
| aspirated | tʰ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | |||
Flap
|
ɾ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n
|
|||||
| Approximant | w | ( l )
|
j | ||||
/ɾ/ can also alternate to a lateral approximant [l] sound. A glottal stop sound [ʔ] can be heard intervocalically.[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, ĩ | ɨ, ɨ̃ | u, ũ |
| Mid | e, ẽ | ə | o, õ |
| Open | a, ã |
References
- ^ Yanomamö at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ISBN 978-94-6093-258-8. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2021-04-18.
- ISBN 9780521570213.
- OCLC 61157955.
Further reading
- Ferreira, Helder Perri (2017). Yanomama Clause Structure: Proefschrift (PDF). ISBN 978-94-6093-260-1. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2023-11-05.
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