Umotína language

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Umotína
Umutína
Native to Brazil
Region Mato Grosso
Ethnicity515 Umutina (2014) [1]
Extinct 2003 [2]
Macro-Jê  ?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 umo
Glottolog umot1240
ELP Umutina

Umotína or Umutína is a recently extinct language of Brazil. [3]

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Phonology

Consonants

It is one of the few languages in the world to have a linguolabial consonant; in unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury reported it has the voiceless linguolabial plosive: /t̼/. [4] [5]

Tan Huare (2015)

Umotina consonants [6]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Occlusive plain p t k
voiced b
lab. pʷ kʷ
voiced lab. bʷ
Nasal m n
Fricative plain s ʃ h
voiced z ʒ
Tap ɾ
Lateral l
Approximant w j

Pereira Lima (1995)

Umotina consonants [7]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Occlusive p t k
Fricative plain ʃ
voiced z ʒ
Nasal m n
Tap ɾ
Lateral l
Approximant w j

Vowels

Umotina vowels [6] [7]
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

References

  1. ↑ "Umutina - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  2. ↑ Camargos, L. S. (2013). Consolidando uma proposta de Família Linguística Boróro: contribuição aos estudos histórico-comparativos do Tronco Macro-Jê (Doctoral thesis) (in Portuguese). Universidade de Brasília..
  3. ↑ Schultz, Harald (1952). "Vocabulario dos Indios Umutina". Journal de la société des américanistes. 41 (1): 81–137. doi:10.3406/jsa.1952.2400.
  4. ↑ Martin, Samuel E. (1956). "Review of A Manual of Phonology". Language. 32 (4): 683. doi:10.2307/411090. JSTOR   411090.
  5. ↑ Olson, Kenneth S.; Reiman, D. William; Sabio, Fernando; da Silva, Filipe Alberto (2013). "The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko". Journal of West African Languages. 42 (2): 63. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  6. 1 2 Tan Huare, Ducinéia (2015). Léxico remanescente Umutina: repertório linguístico de seus lembrantes (PDF) (masters thesis). Caceres: Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso.
  7. 1 2 Pereira Lima, Stella Telles (1995). A Língua Umutína: "um sopro de vida" (PDF) (masters thesis). Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.



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