Japreria language

Japrería (Yapreria) is a Cariban language of Venezuela.

Japrería
Native toVenezuela
Ethnicity216[1]
Native speakers
170 (2002 census)[2]
Cariban
  • (unclassified)
    • Yupka
      • Japrería
Language codes
ISO 639-3jru
Glottologjapr1238[3]

Orthography

  • a - [a]
  • ch/č - [t͡ʃ]
  • e - [e]
  • ë - [ə]
  • i - [i]
  • h/j - [h]
  • j/x - [x]
  • k/c/qu - [k]
  • m - [m]
  • n - [n]
  • o - [o]
  • p - [p]
  • r - [ɾ]
  • ŕ - [ʁ]
  • s - [s]
  • sh/š - [ʃ]
  • t - [t]
  • u - [u]
  • ü/y/ɨ -[ɨ]
  • v - [ʋ]
  • y/j - [j] [4]

Phonology

Japreria has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.[5]

Consonants
Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Stop p t k ʔ
Affricate t͡ʃ
Fricative s ʃ h
Nasal m n
Approximant ʋ j
Trill ʀ
Flap ɾ
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References

  1. Japreria language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Japrería at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Japreria". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Japreria language at Omniglot
  5. "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-14.


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