Oro Win language
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Moribund Chapacuran language of Brazil
| Oro Win | |
|---|---|
| Oro Towati' | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Rondônia |
| Ethnicity | 55 Oro Win (1998)[1] |
Native speakers | 5 (2011)[1] |
Chapacuran
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | orw |
| Glottolog | orow1243 |
| ELP | Orowari |
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Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.[2] As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age.[3] 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.[4] [5]
Phonology
[edit ]Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, [t͡ʙ̥].
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | |
| Near-close | ʏ | |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open | a |
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t̪ʙ̥ | t | k | ʔ |
| Fricative | ɸ | s | |||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||
| Semivowel | j | w |
References
[edit ]- ^ a b Oro Win at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Oro Win - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2025年05月30日.
- ^ Birchall, Joshua. "Oro Win Language". Programa Povos Indígenas no Brasil do Instituto. Retrieved 2012年12月30日.
- ^ "Did you know Orowari is critically endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2025年04月21日.
- ^ Tondineli, Patrícia Goulart (2021). (Re)vitalizar línguas minorizadas e/ou ameaçadas: teorias, metodologias, pesquisas e experiências (PDF) (1 ed.). EDITORA DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE RONDÔNIA - EDUFRO. doi:10.47209/978-65-87539-61-4 (inactive 19 August 2025). ISBN 978-65-87539-61-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2025 (link) - ^ a b "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018年07月22日.
Bibliography
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- 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 [t͡ʙ̥] in Oro Win.
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