Minica Huitoto language
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Indigenous American Huitoto language
| Minica Huitoto | |
|---|---|
| Mɨnɨka | |
| Native to | Colombia, Peru |
Native speakers | 1,500 (2008)[1] |
Bora–Witoto
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hto |
| Glottolog | mini1256 |
| ELP | Minica Huitoto |
Minica (Mɨnɨka) Huitoto is one of three indigenous American Huitoto languages of the Witotoan family spoken by a few thousand speakers in western South America.[1]
It is spoken in the Upper Igara-Paraná river area, along the Caquetá River at the Isla de los Monos, and the Caguán River near San Vicente del Caguán. There is 75% literacy in Colombia and 85% are literate in Spanish; most are bilingual. There is a dictionary and grammar rules.[1]
There are only five speakers in Peru, where it has official standing within its community.[1]
Phonology
[edit ]Vowels
[edit ]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɯ | u |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a | ||
Consonants
[edit ]| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | θ | x | ||
| voiced | β | |||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
- Stops /b, d, ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as [mb, nd, ŋɡ] in word-initial position.
- Labial consonants /b, ɸ, m/ may also be heard as labialized [bw, ɸw, mw] before the back-close vowel /ɯ/.[2]
Writing system
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Notes
[edit ]- ^ a b c d Minica Huitoto at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
- ^ Ávila, Youlín (2018). Las vocales en sílabas CV orales acentuadas del mɨnɨka hablado en Bogotá: una descripción fonética acústica. Bogotá, Colombia: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. pp. 16–17.
- ^ "Vocabulario bilingüe: huitoto-español, español-huitoto (dialecto mɨnɨca)". SIL International. 24 January 2013.
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