Tamanaku language
Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.
Tamanaku | |
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Native to | Venezuela |
Extinct | (date missing)[1] |
Cariban
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tmz |
Glottolog | tama1338 [2] |
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | |
Affricate | ts (dz) | ||||
Fricative | [β] | [h] | |||
Nasal | m | n | [ɲ] | ||
Liquid | r [l] | ||||
Approximant | w | j |
Stops may have voiced allophones of [b d ɡ]. Allophones of /p, n, r/ include [β h ɲ l].[3]
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gollark: Yep.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: potatoNET is the dump, potatoNET is the chat program.
gollark: There are two, the chat program and the remote settings dump interface.
References
- Tamanaku at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tamanaku". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Melles, Gavin (1991). Reseña: Marie Claude Mattéi-Muller y P. Henley - Los tamanaku: su lengua, su vida.
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