Umotína language

Umotína
Umutína
Native to	Brazil
Region	Mato Grosso
Ethnicity	515 Umutina (2014) [1]
Extinct	2003 [2]
Language family	Macro-Jê  ? Bororoan Umotína
Language codes
ISO 639-3	umo
Glottolog	umot1240
ELP	Umutina

Umotína or Umutína is a recently extinct language of Brazil. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Phonology

It is one of the few languages in the world to have a linguolabial consonant; in unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury reported it has the voiceless linguolabial plosive: /t̼/. ^{[6] [7]}

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. Tan Huare, Ducinéia (2015). Léxico remanescente Umutina: repertório linguístico de seus lembrantes (PDF) (masters thesis). Caceres: Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso.
5. Pereira Lima, Stella Telles (1995). A Língua Umutína: "um sopro de vida" (PDF) (masters thesis). Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.
6. Martin, Samuel E. (1956). "Review of A Manual of Phonology". Language. 32 (4): 683. doi:10.2307/411090. JSTOR   411090.
7. 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.