Wayampi language

Wayampi (Guayapi, Oiampí) is a Tupi–Guarani language spoken by the Wayampi people. It is spoken in French Guiana and Brazil.

Wayampi
RegionFrench Guiana, Brazil
EthnicityWayampi
Native speakers
1,200 (2000)[1]
Tupian
Language codes
ISO 639-3oym
Glottologwaya1270[2]

Orthography

Wayampi is spelt phonetically based on the International Phonetic Alphabet, and not according the French orthography.[3] The spelling uses the letter ɨ for the close central unrounded vowel between i and u.[4] e is always pronounced é, vowels with a tilde are always nasal (ã, , ĩ, õ, ũ), ö is like the German O umlaut, and b is prenounced mb. All letters are pronounced.[4]

gollark: Like I said, <@!330678593904443393>, what can WORKER COOPERATIVES do about PRIONS?!
gollark: Er, more infectious.
gollark: Hopefully a way to OBLITERATE evil prions will be developed before someone somehow engineers an infectious prion disease of some sort.
gollark: Probably.
gollark: At least they're not very transmissible!

References

  1. Wayampi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wayampi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Grenand & Grenand 2017, p. 18.
  4. Grenand & Grenand 2017, p. 20.

Bibliography


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