Coroado Puri dialect

{{Short description|Extinct language of eastern Brazil}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Coroado Puri

| states = Brazil

| ethnicity = Coroado Purí people

| extinct = late 19th century?

| familycolor = american

| fam1 = Purian

| iso3 = none

| glotto = coro1249

| glottorefname = Coroado-Puri

}}

Coroado Purí is an extinct language of eastern Brazil.{{cite journal |last1=Ramirez |first1=Henri |last2=Vegini |first2=Valdir |last3=de França |first3=Maria Cristina Victorino |date=July 2015 |title=Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste brasileiro: revisão e proposta de nova classificação |url=https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Aramirez-2015-koropo/Ramirez_et_al_2015_Koropo_puri_kamaka.pdf |journal=Llames |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=223-277 |access-date=January 26, 2025}} It was mutually intelligible with, and thus a dialect of, Puri.{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=Lyle |title=The indigenous languages of the Americas: history and classification |date=2024 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-767346-1 |location=New York, NY}}

Phonology

= Vowels =

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|+Vowels of Coroado{{Cite thesis |last=da Silva Neto |first=Ambrósio Pereira |title=Revisão da classificação da família lingüística Purí |date=2007 |degree=Master's |publisher=Universidade de Brasília |url=https://repositorio.unb.br/bitstream/10482/2328/1/2007_AmbrosioPereiradaSilvaNeto.pdf |place=Brasília}}

!

!Front

!Central

!Back

Close

|i

|(ɨ)

|u

Close-mid

|e

|

|o

Open

|

|ä

|

The existence of {{IPA|[ɨ]}} is uncertain.

= Consonants =

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|+Consonants of Coroado

! colspan="2" |

!Bilabial

!Alveolar

!Palatal

!Velar

rowspan="3" |Plosive/Affricate

!voiceless

|p

|t

|

|k

voiced

|b

|

|

|

prenasalized

|ᵐp

|

|

|

colspan="2" |Nasal

|m

|n

|ɲ

|

colspan="2" |Sibilant

|

|

|ʃ

|

colspan="2" |Approximant

|

|ɾ

|j

|

References