Arikapú language

Arikapú or Maxubí is an endangered Yabutian language.

Loukotka (1968) lists Arikapú and Maxubí as separate languages. Arikapú is spoken on the Branco River south of the Tuparí tribe. Maxubí was spoken on the Mequéns River, and went extinct some time after 1968.

Speakers

In 1998, Arikapú was spoken by only six individuals in Rondônia, Brazil, at the headwaters of the Rio Branco. By 2015, Djeoromitxi (2015) reported there were only two remaining speakers, namely the two sisters Nazaré Wadjidjika Arikapu and Nambuika Arikapu.Template:RpIt is being supplanted by Portuguese.

Phonology

Nasalisation is indicated by a tilde on the vowel : Template:Angle brackets.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink
Near-close	Template:IPAlink
Close-mid	Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink		Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink
Mid		Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink
Open		Template:IPAlink ãʌ̃

Consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Plosive	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink			Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink Template:Angbr
Affricate			Template:IPAlink Template:Angbr
Fricative						Template:IPAlink
Approximant				Template:IPAlink Template:Angbr	Template:IPAlink
Flap		Template:IPAlink Template:Angbr

Orthography

Arikapú alphabet

a

ä

b

d

dj

e

h

i

ï

k

'

m

n

o

p

r

t

tx

u

ü

y

w

External links

• Arikapú basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• Template:SAPhon