Cinta Larga language

Cinta Larga
Native to	Brazil
Region	Mato Grosso
Ethnicity	Cinta Larga
Native speakers	650 (2012) [1] mostly monolingual
Language family	Tupian Monde Cinta Larga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cin
Glottolog	cint1239
ELP	Cinta Larga

Cinta Larga is a Tupian dialect cluster of Brazil, the largest language of the Monde branch.

According to Moore (2005), Arara do Rio Guariba (Guariba River Arara), spoken in the northern part of Aripuanã Indigenous Park, is closely related to the Cinta Larga dialect cluster, and also shares some features with Suruí. ^[2] 26 words were collected by Hargreaves in 2001. ^[3] This language remains unclassified due to the lack of data.

Phonology

Vowels

Cinta Larga vowels ^[4]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃
Mid	e ẽ		o õ
Open		a ã

Consonants

Cinta Larga consonants ^[4]

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Glottal
				plain	pal.
Stop		p		t	tʲ		k	ʔ
Fricative	plain		s			ɕ
	prenasal		ⁿz
Nasal		m		n		ɲ	ŋ
Approximant		w		l		j

Allophones of consonant phonemes ^[4]

Phoneme	Allophones
/p/	[p], [pʰ], [pʼ], [p̚]
/t/	[t], [tʰ], [tʼ], [t̚], [ɾ]
/tʲ/	[tʲ], [tʰʲ], [ʲtʲ], [ʲt̚]
/k/	[k], [kʰ], [kʼ], [k̚]
/s/	[s̪], [θ]
/ⁿz/	[ⁿ̪z̪], [ⁿ̪ð]
/ɕ/	[ɕ], [tᶝʰ]
/m/	[m], [ᵐb], [b]
/n/	[n], [ⁿd], [d]
/ɲ/	[ɲ], [ʲɲ], [ʲɲʲ], [ɲʲ̃], [ᶮj̃], [ᶮʑ], [ɡᶽ]
/ŋ/	[ŋ], [ᵑɡ], [ɡ]
/w/	[w], [w̃]
/j/	[j], [j̃]

References

1. Cinta Larga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Moore, Denny. 2005. Classificação interna da família lingüística Mondé. Estudos Lingüísticos 34: 515-520. (PDF)
3. Hargreaves, Inês. 2007. Lista de palavras transcritas por Inês Hargreaves, de dois grupos ao norte do Parque Aripuanã, RO . Manuscrito.
4. Sandberg, Patricia M. (1980). O sintagma nominal em Cinta Larga (PDF). Arquivos de Anatomia e Antropologia IV-V. pp. 283–295.