Nadëb language
Nadëb or Kaburi is a Nadahup language of the Brazilian Amazon, along the Uneiuxi, Japura, and Negro rivers. Various names for it include Nadöbö, Xïriwai, Hahöb, Guariba/Wariwa, Kaborí, Anodöub, sometimes compounded with the term Maku, as in Maku do Paraná Boá-Boá after one of the rivers in Nadëb territory.
| Nadëb | |
|---|---|
| Kaburi | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Amazonas |
| Ethnicity | 850 (2010)[1] |
Native speakers | 370 (2011)[2] |
Nadahup
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mbj |
| Glottolog | nade1244[3] |
Phonology
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | u |
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ |
| Open | a | ||
All vowels except for /e, ɤ, o/ have nasalized counterparts.[4]
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | |||
| Fricative | ʃ | h | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
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References
- Nadëb language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- "Nadëb". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nadeb". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
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