Oro Win language
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Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.[1] As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age.[2] However, other reports dictate that there are 12 speakers as of 2015, and there are efforts to increase use of Oro Win among the community.[3][4]
Phonology
Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, Script error: No such module "IPA"..
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| Open | Template:IPA link |
References
Bibliography
- 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.
External links
- 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 Script error: No such module "IPA". in Oro Win.