Yanomamö language

Yanomamö (Yąnomamɨ) is the most populous of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people. Most speakers are monolingual. It has no natively-used writing system. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.

For other ethnic Yanomami languages, see Yanomaman languages.
Yanomamö
Yąnomamɨ
Native toVenezuela, Brazil
RegionOrinoco–Mavaca; Amazonas
EthnicityYanomami
Native speakers
20,000 (2000–2006)[1]
Yanomam
  • Yanomamö
Dialects
  • Cobari (Kobali)
Language codes
ISO 639-3guu
Glottologyano1261[2]

Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive plain p t k (ʔ)
aspirated tʰ
Fricative f s ʃ h
Flap ɾ
Nasal m n
Approximant w (l) j

/ɾ/ can also alternate to a lateral approximant [l] sound. A glottal stop sound [ʔ] can be heard intervocalically.

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i, ĩ ɨ, ɨ̃ u, ũ
Mid e, ẽ ə o, õ
Open a, ã

[3][4]

gollark: Like I said, if I say "assembly is worse than PHP for making web applications", most people will say "yes, that is a fact".
gollark: Anyway, the distinction between "opinion" and "fact" is a strange one.
gollark: I've been meaning to look at Erlang, it is cool.
gollark: I mean, discord needs *a* backend, though I think it uses Erlang or Elixir.
gollark: <@288438602298556416> Are you serious about that? It... does not work that way.

References
  1. Yanomamö at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yanomamö". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Aikhenvald and Dixon, Alexandra Y. and R.M.W. (1999). The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. Ferreira, Helder Perri (2017). Yanomama Clause Structure. Utrecht: LOT.


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