Tamanaku language
Tamanaku | |
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Native to | Venezuela |
Extinct | 20th century[1] |
Cariban
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tmz |
tmz.html | |
Glottolog | tama1338 |
Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.
The earliest word list of Tamanaku was published by Gilij in 1780, from his 20-year stay among the Tamanku beginning around 1750.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]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]
Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
Mid | e ẽ | ə ə̃ | o õ |
Low | a ã |
References
[edit]- ^ Tamanaku at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Meira S, Birchall J, Chousou-Polydouri S. 2015. A character-based internal classification of the Cariban family. Talk presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguisticae Europaea, Leiden, Netherlands, Sept. 4.
- ^ Melles, Gavin (1991). Reseña: Marie Claude Mattéi-Muller y P. Henley - Los tamanaku: su lengua, su vida.