Marúbo language
Panoan language of Brazil
| Marúbo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Javari River basin |
| Ethnicity | Marubo People |
Native speakers | 1,300 (2006)[1] |
Language family | Panoan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mzr |
| Glottolog | maru1252 |
| ELP | Marubo |
Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.
Features
Marubo is an agglutinative language with and SOV word order.[2] It has a graded tense system where what tense is used it determined by the distance in time between the time of reference (usually the time of speaking) and the time in which the mentioned even happened.[3] Marubo unlike most Panoan language does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts.[4]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | |||
| Fricative | v | s | ʃ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Rhotic | ɾ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j |
- /v/ can be heard as either [v] or [β].
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Low | a ã |
- /a, ɨ, u/ may also be heard as [ɐ, ɯ, ʊ].
- Vowels may also be nasalized when preceding nasal consonants.[5]
Status
The Marubo Language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese[6]
Sample Text
| English | Marubo[7] |
| In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. | Txitavíanamã, mai shoviti vevo,“Vana” atõ aká ivo ayase.a Aa Vanaro yora ikítõ ikí Yové Koĩnĩ nióti. Aaivo Vanaro Yové Koĩserívi |
References
- ^ Marúbo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Marubo Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ "Marubo". TIPs. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/book/43795/chapter-abstract/370727287?redirectedFrom=fulltext. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Costa, Raquel Guimarães Romankevicius (2000). Aspectos da fonologia Marubo (Pano): uma visão não-linear. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
- ^ "Promotora Española de Lingüística". www.proel.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ "João 1". www.scriptureearth.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
External links
- Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America - Wordlist & Songs
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