Yaruro language
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| Yaruro | |
|---|---|
| Pumé | |
| Region | Venezuela |
| Ethnicity | Yaruro people |
Native speakers | 7,900 (2001 census)[1] |
Esmeralda–Yaruro ?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yae |
| Glottolog | pume1238[2] |
The Yaruro language (also spelled Llaruro or Yaruru; also called Yuapín or Pumé) is an indigenous language spoken by Yaruro people, along the Orinoco, Cinaruco, Meta, and Apure rivers of Venezuela. It is not well classified; it may be an isolate, or distantly related to the extinct Esmeralda language.
Contents
Sounds[edit]
Consonants[edit]
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | ||||
| voiced | dz | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | h |
| voiced | v | ð | ʒ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels[edit]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| æ | ɔ | ||
| Low | a | ɑ |
Notes[edit]
- ^ Yaruro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pumé". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Alexandra Y. Aikhenvlad & R. M. Dixon (1999). p. 378.
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