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Marúbo language

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Marúbo
Native toBrazil
RegionJavari River basin
EthnicityMarúbo People
Native speakers
1,300 (2006)[1]
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Marubo group
        • Marúbo
Language codes
ISO 639-3mzr
Glottologmaru1252
ELPMarubo

Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.

Features

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Marubo is an agglutinative language with and SOV word order.[2] It has a graded tense system where what tense is used it determined by the distance in time between the time of reference (usually the time of speaking) and the time in which the mentioned even happened.[3] Marubo, unlike most Panoan languages, does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts.[4]

Phonology

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Consonants

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Labial Alveolar Post-
alveolar
Palatal Velar
Stop p t k
Affricate ts
Fricative v s ʃ
Nasal m n
Rhotic ɾ
Approximant w j
  • /v/ can be heard as either [v] or [β].

Vowels

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Front Central Back
High i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
Low a ã
  • /a, ɨ, u/ may also be heard as [ɐ, ɯ, ʊ].
  • Vowels may also be nasalized when preceding nasal consonants.[5]

Status

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The Marubo Language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese.[6]

Sample text

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English Marubo[7]
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Txitavíanamã, mai shoviti vevo,“Vana” atõ aká ivo ayase.a Aa Vanaro yora ikítõ ikí Yové Koĩnĩ nióti. Aaivo Vanaro Yové Koĩserívi

References

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  1. ^ Marúbo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Marubo Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  3. ^ "Marubo". TIPs. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  4. ^ academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/book/43795/chapter-abstract/370727287?redirectedFrom=fulltext. Retrieved 2024-06-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ Costa, Raquel Guimarães Romankevicius (2000). Aspectos da fonologia Marubo (Pano): uma visão não-linear. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
  6. ^ "Promotora Española de Lingüística". www.proel.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  7. ^ "João 1". www.scriptureearth.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
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