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| Marúbo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Javari River basin |
| Ethnicity | Marúbo people |
Native speakers | 1,300 (2006) [1] |
Panoan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mzr |
| Glottolog | maru1252 |
| ELP | Marubo |
Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.
| |
| Marúbo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Javari River basin |
| Ethnicity | Marúbo people |
Native speakers | 1,300 (2006) [1] |
Panoan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mzr |
| Glottolog | maru1252 |
| ELP | Marubo |
Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.
The Marubo language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese. [2]
| 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 |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Low | a ã |
Marubo is an agglutinative language with and SOV word order. [4] 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. [5] Marubo, unlike most Panoan languages, does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts. [6]
| 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 |
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